Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

Alan Cooper

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

Chogyam Trungpa

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

David Schwimmer

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

David Mitchell

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

Cesare Pavese

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Mark Cuban

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

Billy Gibbons

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Bryce Courtenay

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Catherynne M. Valente

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Jim Foster

We stopped being a sieve on the glass. We started to take responsibility for boxing out.

Holly Holm

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

Louis C. K.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

Louis C. K.

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

Athol Fugard

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

Antonio Tarver

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Antonio Tarver

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Diana Gabaldon

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Chevy Chase

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Chandra Wilson

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

Charles M. Schulz

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Barry Williams

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

Brian Eno

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Ani Difranco

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

Aldo Leopold

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose