Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Taylor

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

Charles de Lint

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

Charles Dickens

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

David Allen

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Legal Maxim

Where the law is most strictly administered, it sometimes causes the greatest wrong

David Givens

When you start to see the emotional muscles contracting, you know there's some attraction. The muscles of the face are definitely emotional. The upper trapezius muscle is emotional, which causes you to flex your head and your shoulders.

Bo Burnham

I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.

Billy Gibbons

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

Charles Dickens

Least said, soonest mended

David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Bo Burnham

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me...

David Hockney

I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

Audrey Meadows

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Arthur Golden

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

Birdman

A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing

Barry Long

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.