Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Oswald Chambers

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Michael Moore

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

Mary Webb

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Miguel de Cervantes

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Lou Reed

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

Maggie Smith

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Sam Walter Foss

Just drop your bucket where you are.

Robert Jordan

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

Joanie Madden

I was looking at the last pictures I took, which was the hills of New Zealand and it just rolled out of me.

Cynthia Lowery

He had been with Wood-land Hills a long time.

Trey Clark

He had a big tractor tire that he liked to jump in and roll down hills in.

Barbara Mikulski

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

John Lieswyn

Make no mistake. These are the steepest hills that we race in America.

Teddy Sears

My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.

Alexandre Aja

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

Steven Squyres

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

Jennifer Wise

Our goal is to have Gregory have Fergie as a companion and have him focus more on the dog.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

The Koran

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Alan Stern

Just on a visceral level, the fact that Pluto has a whole suite of companions will make some people feel better.

Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Friedrich Muller

If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate.

Gary Hume

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

George Eliot

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Mike Winters

Like any companion animal, it's a life-long commitment. It's not just something for the various holiday seasons.