Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Elizabeth

I was the quintessence of sweetness and innocence as an Alice in Wonderland-ish little girl, so I guess no one ever expected such darkness from me.

Lewis Carroll

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Alan Greenspan

I am extraordinarily grateful to Alice Rivlin for her many contributions to the Federal Reserve.

Gretchen Dykstra

I am confident Alice is the person to guide us there.

Lance Loud

I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

Mariella Frostrup

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Sean Kinney

If we found some other dude, to sing I'd love to move on. Write some cool tunes and change the name and go on like that. I don't see continuing as Alice and replacing somebody. We're not trying to replace Layne. We want to play these songs one more time, and if it seems like the right thing to do, it'll happen. I don't know how long it will go or where it will take us. It's kind of a tribute to Layne and our fans, the people who love these songs. It's not some 'I'm broke and I need the money' situation. We love playing together.

Derrick Bell

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

Hillary Clinton

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

D. H. Lawrence

Man's ultimate love for man? Yes, yes, but only in the separate darkness of man's love for the present, unknowable God.

Bertrand Russell

There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

Hafiz Persia

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Atharva Veda

It has shone upon thee, light has arisen, darkness has departed from thee. We remove from thee death, destruction, and disease.

Seiji Maehara

I think this is an issue that is shrouded in darkness. I would like to pursue this issue thoroughly.

National Gallery

From Darkness into Light: Printmaking in Sweden 1890-1960

Sam Veda

Knowledge removes the darkness of ignorance and thus helps even the most ignorant man to become knowledgeable.

Stewart Copeland

But darkness makes me fumble For a key to a door Wide open

Joy Page

For what is it to be blind, but to find safety in the darkness and to become the spouse of habit whose name is ignorance?

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Lynne Sipiora

Our population has been lowered because we have seen such a mild winter. We thought we were just going to slide into summer, but I guess the weather says otherwise.

Marc Levitan

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Kendall Gielow

I was just getting open shots. I took them when they were there and hoped they went in. And I guess they did.

Dan Wheldon

I was kind of surprised (because) I was under the impression they were going to do it with younger kids. But I guess they want to do whatever it takes to win.

Christopher Hill

I think they know our position and I guess we know their position because I don't think anything has changed.

Tom Izzo

It is a win-win-win. I guess on paper, if he goes, it looks like it's a lose for me. It's a lose if you look at the small picture, but a real win if you look at the big picture. The potential of maybe having three first-round picks is pretty impressive.

Johnny Damon

That would be nice. I guess we'll see what happens. I'm not too worried about it.

Rajon Rondo

That's what got me a starting role last year. Whoever's got the hot hand for Florida, I guess that's who I'll be checking.

Bijou Phillips

I never had innocence.

Adolph Gottlieb

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.

Bat for Lashes

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Anthony Anderson

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Anthony Anderson

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Christopher Walken

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Elizabeth I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Agnes Repplier

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

John Webster

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.