Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gareth Gates

I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.

Geoffrey Canada

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Scott Anderson

Expectations have definitely dropped. A lot of people are clinging to jobs they might not enjoy doing just for the sake of job security.

James Walston

He will go, but he'll go screaming. He can perhaps hold a little longer. He is clinging with such tenacity it's staggering.

Julian Fellowes

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

William Simms

Lithe and long as the serpent train,Springing and clinging from tree to tree,Now darting upward, now down again,With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

William Simms

Lithe and long as the serpent train, Springing and clinging from tree to tree, Now darting upward, now down again, With a twist and a twirl that are strange to see.

Ben Hatfield

Progress has been slow. Families are clinging to every hope of survival.

Rob Mullens

It was a rather lackadaisical charge. I was clinging to the truck and shooting at the same time.

William Shakespeare

What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

Saint Augustine

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Agnes Varda

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Djuna Barnes

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

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.

Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Bill Paxton

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Nick Nolte

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

Zygi Wilf

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

Stephen Greene

We want this to be the Lollapalooza of the decade, but with a community-service twist to it.

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Thomas A. Edison

A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everythingcomes to him who hustles while he waits.

Paul Sullivan

I mean, yeah, I know, look, we're twisting the story a little but we can only twist it, right? What can we do?