Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Michael Johnson

When the rail network crashes and burns, the road network does too,

Chris Mecray

Neither item is good news, so you can't say it's one or another. A plane crashes can always impact the stock, but it's probably not a big problem given the strong safety record of that aircraft.

Irv Slosberg

We have a public safety crisis here in Florida. Fatal crashes are up 10 percent this year.

Susan Ferguson

What you find if you look at the raw data (is) you get a big spike in crashes as you move into twilight, and they stay high through the night.

Rocky Gonzalez

I think when we have storms people will go slower but I think some of these crashes were just inexperienced drivers.

Lothar Matthaeus

He will probably quit if he wins the title. If he crashes in the round of 16, what I fear, his system will have failed.

Donella Meadows

Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.

Susan Ferguson

We see more fatalities in frontal crashes but side impact crashes tend to be more injurious.

Russ Rader

Typically rollovers represent a small percentage of crashes but are disproportionately high in the number of deaths because they're so lethal.

Rick Miller

We hope to dispel some of the myths, identify knowledge gaps, sort out some of the issues related to juniper woodland expansion and increase the overall understanding of western juniper place and function in the northern Great Basin.

Waris Ahluwalia

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

Tenzin Gyatso

Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly existence and self-oriented peace; may they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness throughout this spacious world.

Peter Morici

This moderate wage growth should dispel any notions the Fed may hold (that) labor markets and spiraling wages could reignite inflation.

George Thompson

There's a lot of misinformation going around. What we're about now is trying to dispel some of these things.

William Pickens

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

Sandra Hughes

I want to dispel the notion that gasoline will hit $3 a gallon. It won't,

Ned Riley

Clearly, the focus going forward is going to stay on the macro news to either enforce or dispel the notion that inflation is rising.

Glenn Schifano

It seeks to dispel some of the frustrating, suffering that goes on here.

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Tina Brown

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Barbara Ward

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Kate Thompson

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Cornelia Funke

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.