Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caspar David Friedrich

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

Arnold Palmer

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

Frank Herbert

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

John Kenneth Galbraith

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

Jonathan Swift

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

Robert A. Heinlein

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

William Watson

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

Bram Cohen

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

Elie Wiesel

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Edward Rutherfurd

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Arthur Boyd

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Bruce Sterling

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

Blaise Pascal

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Jamie Morris

We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as much.

Matt McGorry

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Mike Ramsey

I am arrogant enough to believe that if I can talk to a juror, I have a pretty good chance of finding out whether they have an agenda.

Tex Hall

We have to get down to the brass tacks. If this is going to move, we, as tribal leaders, have got to put a (settlement) figure in this bill. Right now, it's blank. We can't leave it blank.

John Aimers

She connected with the military in a way I know they appreciate, not only the brass but the serving soldiers who saw someone who had made a point of getting to know them.

Fear Vegas

Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?

Benicio Toro

Let's get down to brass tacks here, man. How much for the ape?

Jason Calacanis

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

Gary Wright

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

Frankie Dettori

I couldn't shake Brass Hat off. He was always a threat.

Illinois Jacquet

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Eberhard Weber

Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.