Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

A. J. Jacobs

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

Alice Cooper

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

Skip Snow

The stomach of the python still surrounded the head, shoulders, and forelimbs of the alligator.

Isla Fisher

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Louis Leakey

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Seth MacFarlane

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

Nicki Minaj

Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators.

C. S. Lewis

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Don Walchuk

We were trying to get on our feet before we lost it.

Alan Shepard

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Alan Shearer

People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic. (on Thierry Henry)

Charlotte Bronte

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Bret Easton Ellis

And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.

Djuna Barnes

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

C. S. Lewis

Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

Charles Dickens

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Jane Austen

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Alan Watts

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

Chinua Achebe

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

Chinua Achebe

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Cheryl Strayed

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Chanakya

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Charlaine Harris

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.