Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cameron Russell

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

Shane Pendley

When you've been burned your always going to have your hand on the pull cord...the right one makes you forget you have the parachute on.

Daisy Okas

We might be back. Tampa was certainly wonderful to us, so you never know. The good thing is they won't get burned out. If it's here every year, they won't think it's as special as it is.

Rachel Carson

Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.

Edgar Allan Poe

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. ""Oh, no,"" I said. ""Disneyland burned down."" He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

Khaleeq Ahmed

There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.

Diane Swonk

(Bush) has got to be even more careful today. He has burned through a lot of political capital. He's got to put someone in who is going to be a slam dunk.

John Challenger

Business owners have been burned by the recession in the past, so they'll take on some temporary staff and then convert them to full time when they know the recovery is for real.

Charles Dickens

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Richard G. Scott

To be humble is to be teachable.

Ricky Gervais

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

Djuna Barnes

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Djuna Barnes

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

David Krumholtz

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

David Dewhurst

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

Lynn Samuels

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.

Khloe Kardashian

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Matt LeBlanc

We've talked about it within the team and we've dubbed it the 'Reverse the Record' season.

Otis Smith

We've talked about it. It's still a ways away. It's 50-50.

Jim Marchiony

We've talked about it, but there's not been a decision.

Ray Durham

We've talked about it, but I'll let them decide. I'd be all for it, that's for sure.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.