Quotes and Sayings about Dew
"Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Time, Hair, Kids, Needs, Parents, Ruin, Saying)
"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Man, Nothing)
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
- Marion Berry
(Related: Car, Police, Promise)
"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup."
- Wendell Berry
(Related: Argument, Dawn, Dew)
"What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing."
- Dewitt Bodeen
(Related: Husband, Nothing)
"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
- Dewitt Bodeen
(Related: Song)
"I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot."
- Dewitt Bodeen
(Related: God, Sun)
"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."
- Dewitt Bodeen
(Related: Lie, Consciousness, Sin, World)
"I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that."
- Christie Brinkley
"I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Corporate, Leaders, Party, Will)
"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Talent, Discipline)
"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Age, Dew, Youth)
"Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Life, Dew)
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
- George Byron
(Related: Thought, Dew, Words)
"The dew of compassion is a tear."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Compassion, Dew)
"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Nothing)
"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Winning, Feeling, Pretty)
"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration."
- DeWitt Clinton
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Wealth, Enjoyment, Pleasure, Shadow, Space, Vanity)
"The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed."
- DeWitt Clinton
(Related: Confession, Secrecy, Will)
"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Beauty, Love, Time, Dew, Sun)
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."
- James Dewar
(Related: Open)
"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Success, Women, Husbands, Road)
"There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Quick)
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Tax, Income)
"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Open)
"No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Wife, Husband, Gambling)
"Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes."
- Thomas R. Dewar
(Related: Wife, Clothes, Man)
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
- John Dewey
(Related: Failure)
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
- John Dewey
(Related: Goal)
"By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction."
- John Dewey
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
(Related: Education, Life, Preparation)
"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
- John Dewey
(Related: Education, Future, Living, Preparation)
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
- John Dewey
(Related: Imagination, Science)
"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
- John Dewey
(Related: Jeopardy, World)
"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
- John Dewey
(Related: History, Beliefs, Man, Old, Surrender)
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
- John Dewey
(Related: Happiness, Opportunity, Key)
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
- John Dewey
(Related: Action, Choice, Self)
"To me faith means not worrying."
- John Dewey
(Related: Faith)
"We only think when we are confronted with problems."
- John Dewey
(Related: Problems)
"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
- John Dewey
(Related: Experience, Happiness, Life, Meaning, Participation)
"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."
- John Dewey
(Related: Education, Experience, Belief)
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."
- John Dewey
(Related: Man, Unworthy)
"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."
- John Dewey
(Related: Man, Words)
"Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire."
- John Dewey
(Related: Time, Heart, Artists, Desire, Memory, Reality)
"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."
- John Dewey
(Related: Luck, Will)
"Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties."
- John Dewey
(Related: Man, Mystery, World)
"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
- John Dewey
(Related: Home, Nature, Mother, Man)
"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs."
- John Dewey
(Related: Work, Beliefs, Old, Trouble)
"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."
- John Dewey
(Related: Heart, Conscience, Deeds, Intentions)
"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."
- John Dewey
(Related: Mind)
"No man's credit is as good as his money."
- John Dewey
(Related: Money, Credit, Man)
"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."
- John Dewey
(Related: Goals, Man)
"The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on."
- Melvil Dewey
(Related: Conflict)
"The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant."
- Melvil Dewey
"The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough."
- Thomas Dewey
(Related: Money, Law)
"No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life."
- Thomas Dewey
(Related: Life, Money, Man, Office, Public)
"We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands."
- Thomas Dewey
(Related: Future, Will)
"When you're leading, don't talk."
- Thomas Dewey
(Related: Leading, Talk)
"My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes."
- Thomas Dewey
(Related: Death, Decision, Taxes)
"If you're not in New York, you're camping out."
- Thomas Dewey
(Related: Camping)
"This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Time, People, Constitution, Conversation, Nation)
"It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Care, Children, Mission, Treatment)
"Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Compassion, Justice, Nation)
"The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: People, Encouraging, Entertainment, Parents)
"Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Policy, Judges, Resolution, Temptation)
"In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Earth, Years)
"One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives."
- Mike DeWine
(Related: Life, Choice, Choices, Decisions, Journey, Road, Years)
"Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too."
- Joyce DeWitt
(Related: Want)
"If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore."
- Joyce DeWitt
(Related: Play, Want)
"When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York."
- Dennis Farina
"I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."
- John Ford
(Related: Dew, Heaven, Now)
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Friendship, Heart, Dew, Laughter, Sharing, Sweetness)
"The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways."
- Gene Hackman
(Related: Difference)
"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Architecture, Country, Style)
"I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk."
- Joshua Homme
(Related: Feet)
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
- Jack Kerouac
(Related: Life, Road)
"Delicious tears! The heart's own dew."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Heart, Dew)
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Art, Beginning, Culture, Dew, Old)
"I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways."
- Kylie Minogue
(Related: Open)
"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Dew, Evening, Joy)
"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent."
- Roman Polanski
(Related: Car, Being, Fact, Paris, Wrong)
"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration."
- Mercer Reynolds
(Related: Business, Friend, Company, Exploration, Oil)
"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
- Mo Rocca
(Related: People, Fact, Feet, Hair)
"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
- Michelle Rodriguez
(Related: School)
"The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: Court, Public, Speech)
"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Related: Friend, Conservative, Dew, World)
"There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir."
- Michael Stipe
(Related: People)
"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
- Barbra Streisand
(Related: Success, Eating)
"You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him."
- Robert A. Taft
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore
(Related: Life, Time, Dance, Dew)
"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."
- Hunter S. Thompson
(Related: Dew, Will)
"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off."
- Robin Trower
(Related: Night)
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
- Ethel Waters
(Related: Dew, Earth, Flowers, Nothing, Sun)
"Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land."
- Kit Williams
(Related: Lady, Hair, Land, Night)
"Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven."
- Lu Yu
(Related: Dew, Heaven, Liquor)
"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with."
- Michael Zaslow
(Related: People, Lying, Will)