Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "C" » Coils
«A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
baby, chemical, chemicals, coil, coiled, Coils, colossal, compare, devises, devising, finest, flow, ingenuity, interrelate, interrelated, invention, irreplaceable, marvelous, most recent, Planes, precision, recent, solutions, springs, super, supercargo, The Finest, timing
«Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked and foolish; For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth»
Author: Martin Fraquhar Tupper
| About:
Errors
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, crooked, Hardy, My Foolish Heart
«I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.»
Author: Uri Geller
| Keywords:
bent, claimed, coil, coiled, Coils, contraceptive, Contraceptives, pregnant, sued, watched
«My first impression as I opened the door was that a fire had broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it. As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing. Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
acrid, armchair, armchairs, blurred, clay pipe, coarse, coil, coiled, Coils, coughing, dressing, dressing gown, dressing room, First Impressions, fume, fumes, haze, pipe, smoking room, tobacco
«I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, consequently, diversified, diversifies, diversify, elements, knots, suggests, tangle, tangles, tangle with, This Mortal Coil, tie, tighter, tug, tugging, tugs, undo
«Eat whatever one gets and appease the hunger; and sleep wherever one finds shelter. Do not store food for another day or build a house wherein to pass one's days. Escape the entangling coils of the senses and of the ego that prompts them.»
«He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, drawled, drawling, fainting
«If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, encircle, encircled, encircles, encircling, snake, take part, wrestle, wrestled, wrestles
«O man, when you were coiled in the cradle of the womb, upside-down, you were absorbed in meditation. You took no pride in your perishable body; night and day were all the same to you - you lived unknowing, in the silence of the void. Remember the terrible pain and suffering of those days, now that you have spread out the net of your consciousness far and wide.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, cradle, far and wide, Night and Day, spread out, The Net, The Silence, unknowing, upside down
«For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
