Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Stokes

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

Lea Thompson

As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.

Marcus Aurelius

The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past

Roger Clemens

Roberts said. ''This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

Jimmy Smits

Jimmy is not a good talker, ... prepare doubly hard.

George H. W. Bush

It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.

Eric Noble

They needed more people even if they had stayed here (in Southern California). Every one of these announcements hits them doubly hard. Even if they hadn't lost a soul, they were going to be shorthanded.

Steve Young

It'll come. When it does, that's when he'll be doubly dangerous.

Jill Soloway

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Craig Brown

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

William Blake

I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and that loves me;I've all but riches bodily.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Heinrich Boll

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

John Collins

We were very close, and we shared each others' joys and sorrows.

Robert Burton

All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Alice Sebold

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Lou Davis

We have no sour grapes. We're looking to the future.

Fred Thompson

We have no idea at this time (why he killed himself), ... But we are looking into it.

Neil Shubin

We were always looking over our shoulders; we saw lots of tracks.

Lisa Dutton

We were always looking for the open player. Sometimes we took a shot too soon.

Jeremy Sweet

We were always looking around for cottonmouth, rattlesnakes and alligators.

Robert Wood

We've seen the report and are looking into it.

Jason Koumas

We've still got a lot to play for and we're looking to win in Poland, definitely,

Adolf Rosenstock

The outlook for recovery is fading. We are looking at another possible recession in manufacturing which would not bode well for the overall economy.

David Young

Ulster will be a much tougher side than Connacht so we will be looking for big improvements.

Carol Roth

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Carlos Fuentes

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

C. S. Lewis

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Jane Jacobs

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Dan Watkins

We always work on it. You never know when the situation will present itself.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.