Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

Georges Bernanos

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Jean Baudrillard

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Dave Chappelle

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

David D. Burns

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

Cesar Romero

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

Bryan Batt

I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

Catherynne M. Valente

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

Casey Stengel

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out