(1062 quotes found)
“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination”
Hal Borland
“Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.”
Joseph P. Kennedy
“And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?”
Carl Sandburg
“Remember you're a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth.”
Cecil B. De Mille
“My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.”
Rachel Carson
“If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person”
Ralph Bunche
“What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.”
Jerome Richardson
“Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.”
Martin Friedman
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
T.S. Eliot
“If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?”
Ann Coulter
