Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Tom Kennedy

The other possibility is that there have been several appeals to the public for information. Police, within just a few days of making this public appeal, got more than 1,300 telephone calls from the public.

Michael Callahan

We appeal to the U.S. government to do all it can to help us provide beneficial services to Chinese citizens lawfully and in a way consistent with our shared values.

Brian Paddick

We are making an urgent appeal for any photos or videos -- including from mobile phones -- taken Thursday morning close to where the bombs exploded.

Steve Fortuna

We believe that the Cube is too pricey at $1,799 to appeal to consumers in volume, while few professional users are going to opt for the Cube based on its award-winning design.

Christopher Moore

There are some elements that are tonal and some are not. But nothing so far out you can't grasp it. It's appealing music.

Nathan Myhrvold

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

Source Unknown

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Frank Mastalerz

We were trying to embrace the community on a different level of entertainment and appeal to middle-aged people who could relate to a Las Vegas-type show.

Travis Wright

We started passing well. We played defense a little better, we started getting blocks outside and we were serving a little tougher ourselves.

Terri McColloch

We still missed too many serves and we played a little sloppy in games one and two. We played better in games three and four and there were streaks where our blocks were real good." ()

Andy Bitto

We have to get better technically in all phases. Sustaining our blocks (running game), pass blocking, being more efficient passing, getting a better pass rush, tackling ...

Nicholas Kristof

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

Gregg Williams

Whether you call it a low-grade separation or a contusion, he practiced every day. He won't get treatment for it. He blocks out pain. He plays through it. It's a testament to his toughness as a football player.

Kent Perkins

We're spread out over two blocks and there's lots of fun things. Some families make this a family reunion event. It's a feel-good kind of thing. There's something for everybody.

John Marshall

To our knowledge, the current study is the first to identify a molecular mechanism that blocks both retrieval and reconsolidation of any type of memory. While much remains to be understood concerning the cellular processes underlying the effects of ERK in drug-stimulus associations and other types of learning and memory, the present findings offer hope for treating cue-elicited relapse in addicts.

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Rudi Giuliani

The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon.

Ron Holt

The point, I think, is that Camden Yards really fits into that neighborhood but it has the 'wow' factor. A great new building that excites people but doesn't take away from the neighborhood.

Bill Seltenheim

The point is inventories are building over the ideal 60-day marks. They've maybe reached a point where the market is getting saturated.

Chris Boone

The plaza is a culmination of about two years work designing, raising funds, and the building the plaza. Originally we had planned to do this in the fall, but because of the hurricane it was sidetracked.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Bernhard Goetz

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Andy Yu

Working together, we will show the criminals that there will be no safe haven for their crimes.

John Deane

The plan is to deny criminals the use of the road.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Daniel Handler

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Sergei Ivanov

Six of the criminals were eliminated, ... From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Denis Leary

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Chadwick Boseman

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,

Brian Tracy

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Edward Abbey

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Chris Castro

This strategy makes a lot of sense for us. There's a golden opportunity for us in DVD.

Lee Bermejo

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Lois Frankel

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

Johann Koss

I was surrounded by many heroes today. Some would say they are athletes. I would say they are humanitarians, too.

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Long Qiming

I am just a simple Chinese. I don't think I'm a hero. The real heroes are the ones who sacrificed their lives.

Jarret Stoll

Heroes are made every day in the playoffs. Winnie is a new hero for us today.

Felix Rodriguez

It hurts. It hurts whenever one of our heroes comes home, but not alive. This is the first one (soldier) from the Raymondville area.

John Scalzi

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

Jethro Tull

The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.

Rick Murphy

There are construction techniques that you can remove those walls, and lift them out, and set them in other locations.

Bob Iger

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Diane Centeno

We're getting a lift from markets where we hadn't advertised previously. It's small now, but we're starting to see it.

Evangeline Lilly

Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.

Timothy Noah

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

John Kneup

She was always there. There've been several times it's just been the two of us lifting weights.

Brad Goreski

I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have a Brazilian trainer here in New York and we do a Brazilian Butt Lift workout.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Rep. Taylor

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Khare Hawkins

You do have to be fashionable because you do represent us. If you are part of this troupe, you must look the part at all times.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Bill Bixby

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Gene Luen Yang

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman—who is only a mere superhero.

Donald Glover

When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

Clark Gregg

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

Dan Quayle

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

David Lyons

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

Corey Taylor

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.