Imperatives Examples Quotes & Sayings

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount. — Xabi Alonso

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something. — Creed Bratton

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve. — Elvis Presley

Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing. — Marvin Olasky

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving ... — Hilda Conkling

Music, in the past few years ... anything singable or understandable is square. — Ethel Merman

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. — Richard Von Weizsaecker

It's been 18 months since I won on The European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more. — Rory McIlroy

As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people. — Karen Elson

her grass seemed
greener until
a drought came
and cracked the earth
beneath you. — K.Y. Robinson

Expert chess playing, for example, was once thought to epitomize human intellection. In the view of several experts in the late fifties: "If one could devise a successful chess machine, one would seem to have penetrated to the core of human intellectual endeavor. — Nick Bostrom

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event. — Robert Lowell

What's wrong?" he asked.
"What's wrong?" she repeated. "I don't know what's going on here but you need to put that book back in the attic where you found it. Right away."
"I tried to," he said, looking sheepishly at the floor, "but it wouldn't let me."
"Wouldn't LET you? It's...a...BOOK," she shouted. — Alfred M. Struthers

You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy! — Phyllis Diller