Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Charles Dickens

Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

Charles Dickens

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Charles Dickens

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.

Charles Dickens

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Chris Colfer

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

Dave Barry

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Cesare Pavese

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

Carter G. Woodson

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Camille Paglia

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

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.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

Doug Martin

We want this thing killed. This is a joke, and the sad thing is, we're paying for it.

Kristin Armstrong

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Rick Savage

We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services.

Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Chip Conley

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite questions are "Tell me about a failure in your career, what you learned from it, and how you've leveraged this lesson" and "All of us are misperceived at one time or another. What's the most common way you're misperceived in the workplace and why?" Both of these questions require a certain amount of self-awareness and a willingness to not give pat, normal answers that we offer experience in interviews.

Catherine Ashton

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Cathy Freeman

I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

Carl Lewis

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

Bob Woodward

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Bob Paisley

Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.

Blanche Lincoln

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

Betty White

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

Ahna O'Reilly

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.