Banner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
-- Caroline Pratt

#Retrospect #Flaunting #Banner
As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
-- Dennis Farina

#Kids #Banner
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
-- Kingsley Amis

#Sometimes #Dishes #Banner
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
-- Langston Hughes

#Black #Proud #Banner
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, Onward toward mediocrity.
-- Martin de Maat

#Mediocrity #Banner #Streets
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.
-- Nicholson Baker

#Amazon #Site #Banner
I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.
-- Prince Fielder

#Play #Cities #Banner
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
-- Tennessee Williams

#Banner #Discretion
We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.
-- Yakov Sverdlov

#Circumstances #Difficult #Banner

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's.
You could go to New York City, you could go to LA, you could go to the highest class studios in the world, they'll have all the bells and whistles, but it's not going to make your record any better.
We've given Iraq a chance. Now they need to stand on their own. This is a 1,400-year-old conflict, and unless we are prepared to bankrupt ourselves spending another 1,400 years policing it, we need to stay out.
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.