Quotes & Sayings About The Statue Of Zeus At Olympia

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. — Elaine Stritch

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development. — Ted Shackelford

When you run any organisation, you have to look as far down the road as you can. — Alex Ferguson

As a matter of habit, I stop and pick up seashells that interest me, and I always put the ones I really like in a lovely Baccarat bowl in my living room. It's my way of remembering that I once was young and carefree. — Adriana Trigiani

If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. — Angela Merkel

And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were excellent in all sorts of science, whom he had always attending his person, to the end, that when amongst his friends any occasion fell out of speaking of any subject whatsoever, they might supply his place, and be ready to prompt him, one with a sentence of Seneca, another with a verse of Homer, and so forth, every one according to his talent; and he fancied this knowledge to be his own, because it was in the heads of those who lived upon his bounty; as they, also, do whose learning consists in having great libraries. — Michel De Montaigne

Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily ... and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works. - Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19 — Douai-Rheims Bible

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized. — Cynthia Heimel

More and more, she was experiencing a growing distance from her self-awareness. Her sense of Alice - what she knew and understood, what she liked and disliked, how she felt and perceived - was also like a soap bubble, ever higher in the sky and more difficult to identify, with nothing but the thinnest lipid membrane protecting it from popping into thinner air. — Lisa Genova

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both. — Marshall McLuhan

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. — Douglas Sirk

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It's never too soon, nor too late, to follow your passion. — Shann Vander Leek

You can't say to the spring: "Come now and last as long
as possible." You can only say: "Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you
can. — Paulo Coelho