(1374 quotes found)
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
Carl Sandburg
“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
Ben Stein
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
Walter Benjamin
“After an American has been in a totalitarian country for several months, he is greatly relieved when he reaches home. He feels that bonds have been released and that he is free. He can speak above a whisper, and he walks relaxed and unguarded as though he were no longer being followed. After a recent trip I said to a neighbor, "It's wonderful to be back in a nation where even a riot may be tolerated."”
William Orville Douglas
“Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.”
Cynthia Heimel
“A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.”
Jean Cocteau
“I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?”
Frank Oz
“The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.”
Karl von Clausewitz
“We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.”
Richard J. Daley
“Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.”
Renee Zellweger