Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atharva Veda

If, what is learned is not put into practice, the student is like a cow that does not yield milk; a fruit lacking in taste, a book bereft of wisdom.

Sam Veda

Life devoid of struggles is a life bereft of happiness because the value of happiness is realized only after pain.

Beth Henley

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

Gerard Hopkins

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Dave Girouard

Enterprise search software is so clearly bereft of soul. Enterprise search has not been useful to users. It's not simple, comprehensive or reliable.

Jeff Gundy

The starters did a good job to start the game. The bench, inexplicably, is bereft of energy and intensity, and we have all young guys who are trying to carve out a career. I don't get it.

Monty Python

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

Tom Sizemore

I know what's out there. I did a little of that running around. It left me bereft and bored, running around with a bunch of B-level models and half-ass movie stars.

Sydney Wayser

I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.

Sydney Wayser

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

Kelly Rowland

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Kelsea Ballerini

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.

Charles King

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Blake Lively

I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Chris Greene

To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you can't put a price tag on that.

Larry Vinyard

When the children's choir does presentations, it's hard to pick them up (on microphone) when they are moving around. In a matter of a couple hours, they will have completely recorded all the music to their musical.

Jeffrey Miller

We have a good number of long-term members, as well as some newer members, which makes for a nice mix. We're famous for our choir - we have a fabulous choir director. And I think many people continue to enjoy our traditional style of worship service.

Kel Mitchell

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.

Lesley-Anne Down

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

Billie Whitelaw

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

William Earl Brown

I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.

Peter Jackson

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

John Flaherty

I thought Randy went back out there for a curtain call.

Dean Karnazes

The first thing I do when I walk into a hotel is find the gym, and if they don't have a gym, I start looking for a handhold where I can do my pull-ups. Sometimes if a shower curtain rod is sturdy enough, I'll do them there.

Steve Jobs

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Chris Costello

Our permit expired and we were told that we needed to be off the Green. They issued threats that we took as unfriendly.

Emm Gryner

I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.

Tom Hansen

Every year we have farmers who visit a local farm store and are informed that their private pesticide applicators license has expired and they need a new license before they can purchase any of these products.

Bill Belichick

It was kind of like basketball. We were playing for the last shot there. If we make it, we make it. If we don't, time expired and we're in overtime.

Elizabeth Cohen

Gosh, it expired three months ago. What should I do?

David Pak

People have gone out of their way to make me feel welcome. It's amazing.

Tony Dwyer

People have gone from worrying how much they lost to worrying about how much they have left.

Dave Molina

Our goalie Ryan Bock had the most incredible save I have ever seen in high school soccer. He stopped a shot that should have gone in and then got back up to stop another shot. Even the ref, who is supposed to be impartial, was clapping. It was a real morale booster.

Marty Wilson

Our fund-raising has gone better than we expected. But the unions are still going to outspend us more than two-to-one.

Marty Wilson

Our fund-raising has gone better than we expected, ... But the unions are still going to outspend us more than two-to-one.

Charlie Wilson

Our three seniors - I wish they had gone out on a little more positive note. They have been tremendous leaders for our team this year. They did a great job.

Michael Andretti

Overall, I'm very happy with his performance, as is the whole team. His initial test couldn't have gone any better.

Jim Richards

Our car's gone great, but the other guys are going well too. We're going as hard as we can but tomorrow will probably suit the smaller cars, but I think we'll do alright, hopefully.

Dave Clark

Other than not making the playoffs, things couldn't have gone any better. To go through the struggles we did in the first half and being able to persevere and come back and be in the mix and taking that thing all the way down to the wire was great.

Rick Harper

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.

Rosemary Palmer

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Eduard Limonov

He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Bob Holt

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had trouble getting games, but if we all do our share ...

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Sabrina Davis

Some of the meetings are just a big mess. I'm sure if they reduced, they'd run much better.

Kevin Quinn

Our staff has been meeting today with advocates and also with members of the Legislature

Hosni Mubarak

We need another meeting and we need more deliberation,

John Chaney

I will meet with him whenever he desires. He made some nice overtures to me that he wanted my support and I'm going to support him.

Don Perkins

I think the most important thing he teaches all of us, ... is that anything is possible when preparation meets opportunity.

Vernon Davis

Just from being around them and meeting with them, it seems as if they would take me.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Sebastien Bourdais

I was a little disappointed that they nailed me during the winter.

Tom Renney

He nailed the big one. The question was, can he rise to the big game? And he did.

Arthur Vint

We played pretty much every song we know. It was just one time through and we nailed it.

Jake Gold

You nailed it. You couldn't have done it any better.

Brion James

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

Sandra Cisneros

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Savvas Halikas

I think he was, 'I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this' and he hyperventilated and passed out.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

York State

I was pushing for it from the beginning,

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Skip Fredricksen

I think it's great, I think it's long overdue. We've been pushing for it the 10 years I've been here.

Don Mattingly

He was always on the edge, pushing the envelope. He was wired all the time.

Dan Morrison

He has a built-in self-starter. He's never satisfied where he's at. He's always pushing himself.

John McGary

He is going to be pushing for it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Paul Taibi

We're taking it one rung at a time.