Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Kurt Vonnegut

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Beyonce Knowles

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Cheryl Strayed

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

David Sedaris

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Christian McKay

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Allan Gurganus

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Annie Baker

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Bob Woods

The story could be set in some fictional place, but it wasn't. They made it personal. They plopped it down in a specific place. People in a small town take a lot of pride in who they are, and that's not who they are. This isn't New York. And then set it in 1963, right? In 1963, they'd make fun of a man if he wore shorts.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.