Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Clive Davis

Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, ... That makes it three in a row -- three out of three. You just can't beat that! What makes it extra special is the live format of Unplugged for the true musician -- the public really has to be passionate about the artist and the music to buy the album in these numbers.

Caleb Dolan

We are pretty intent on opening more campuses in North Carolina because the achievement gap is so great, whether you are talking about the difference between blacks and whites or the difference between eastern North Carolina and Chapel Hill.

Alexis Strauss

We are pleased to celebrate this achievement with the Navajo Nation. We'll continue to work together to protect and restore vital water resources on tribal land.

Chad Latch

There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment. Matt Stephenson wrestled really well and was in every match. It's a good point in the season for Matt to realize that he can wrestle well at a tournament like this.

Samuel Smiles

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Michael Gove

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Heather Watts

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Alan Ball

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Buddy Valastro

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

James Touchton

The only reason I can think of is that the students are happy with the job we have done.

Cindy Cohn

We are pretty happy with the tenor of the questions asked.

Ben Gunn

We've all been training since October and this (state title) was what we were all going for. I'm just so happy to be a part of this team.

O. Henry

We usually struggle to go through but I think we are all happy about qualifying. Other teams are struggling to go through -- and we have been there -- but we are in the last 16 now and it's a nice thing to already be through.

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Ai Weiwei

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.