Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

Charles Dickens

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...

Charles Spurgeon

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

David Tennant

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

Jamie Zawinski

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

Elie Wiesel

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

Edward R. Murrow

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

Berthold Auerbach

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Craig Smith

The process could take two or three days. If there were mistakes, we had to start over. Our system was antiquated. We have nine different schools with approximately 15 different departments. There were multiple ID templates floating around.

Archimedes

Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

Bat for Lashes

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

Christina Aguilera

When I got to the last box, there was a ring in it. He got down on one knee and said 'Will you do me the honor of being my wife?' I've been floating ever since.

Ben Kwong

Sentiment remained strong as hot money was still floating around the market.

David Duchovny

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

Richard Ashcroft

On the person who stole his guitar: "Whoever you are out there, you can safely take it back to Virgin and nothing will be done. Or you can find yourself floating in the River Mersey.

Shawn Chacon

I was sort of just floating around. You're disappointed, but at the same time you understand the situation. I just wanted to pitch.

Chris Hadfield

Now picture Sasha floating freely in space and she wanted to go to sleep.

Source Unknown

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

Blake Lively

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

Valerie June

My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.

Rita Ora

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.

Natasha Poly

I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

Steve Jones

I love that rose. It has an intense fragrance -- an 'old rose' smell.

Rachel Zoe

I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

Tom Tancredo

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Lynsey Addario

Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

Jessalyn Gilsig

It's much more fun to be the person who comes into the room and lights the match. I get to be the force, the girl who always says or does something completely outrageous, and leaves everyone thinking, 'What was that?'

Yotam Ottolenghi

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Tracy Kidder

I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.

Algernon Blackwood

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.

Thomas Mann

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Bill Viola

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Edward M. Purcell

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Jane Austen

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Marcia Wieder

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Roger Turner

This route is shorter than any of the possibilities that could be used for I-3.

Luka Sulic

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

Steve Letro

We have to wait and see what (Ophelia) is going to do. The possibilities are endless.

Gary Russell

The range of possibilities is still pretty vast,

Kevin Krueger

Whatever he wants to do with his life...we just want all the possibilities to be there for him.

Jeff Hennion

We are being presented with different possibilities all day, every day.

Paul Simon

Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I look around all my possibilities

Jim Haslett

I haven't talked to Mr. Benson about any of that at all. I haven't talked about those possibilities yet. I would like to know something before the end of the season. But that's up to him.

Caitlin Flanagan

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

Cary Grant

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Chris Colfer

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Ashley Jensen

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

Brian Tracy

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

Jane Horrocks

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

Billy Wilder

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Jandy Nelson

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Ben Schwartz

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

David Bowie

For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

Ruth Brown

She's another Tina Turner is what I see,

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Adam McKay

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

Debi Mazar

I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.