(1587 quotes found)
“A guy is walking along the edge of the Grand Canyon and he falls off. He's hurtling down hundreds of feet to certain death and he looks up and grabs this twig, and it breaks his fall. He heaves a sigh of relief, and then, all of a sudden, he sees the roots coming loose. He looks up to the sky and says, "God, why me? I'm a good person. I've taken care of my family. I've paid all my taxes, I've worked all my life. Why me?" And this thunderous voice says, "Son, there's just something about you that I don't like."”
Bill Clinton
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
A. E. Housman
“Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“As the cortege wound slowly along, the queen whispered in a broken voice, "Here he is," and I knew that her dry eyes were seeing beyond the coffin a little boy in a sailor suit.”
Lady Mabell Airlie
“I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.”
Christina Aguilera
“I'm not concerned about those things, I know I'm not going to keep everybody happy along the way,”
Ricky Ponting
“Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone that's smart and wholesome and worthy - and then just listen to what they say.”
David Joyner
“The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.”
Stockwell Day
“Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.”
Norman Cook
“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch
