Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

Charles Spurgeon

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Ang Lee

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Diane Wakoski

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...

Catherine Drinker Bowen

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Cary Grant

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Janis Joplin

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Charlie Chaplin

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

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

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.

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)

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.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Byron Katie

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Elizabeth I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Bat for Lashes

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Bijou Phillips

I never had innocence.

Adolph Gottlieb

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.

Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Alice Thomas Ellis

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Anthony Anderson

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.