Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Mike Reilly

We want to support solar technology and do our part to be a responsible business. By combining solar power and robotic cutting equipment, we are able to maintain our high-end snowboard reputation and show the younger generation that solar energy is the future.

Gene Kimmelman

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

David Howell

The public can be deceived into thinking that this is what they need. I'm for combining services, but I'm not for metro government.

Lord Byron

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

David Blunkett

So good on them. And whether it is a year or two years, it actually will be a sensible process of combining the talents that we have.

Rose Rosetree

She is good at combining her own ideas with other people's points of view.

Mark Baird

Frankly, we're taking what was two well-trained and efficient departments and combining them to make one better department.

Linda Bannister

from a strategic standpoint the merger makes a lot of sense. It's combining strong content with a whole new means of distributing that content.

Victor Lazarovici

Just the mere concept of combining the No. 2 and No. 3 (nickel) producers in the western world into one company is enough to make regulators take a good hard look.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Donald Rumsfeld

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Kip Winger

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

Jack Crumbliss

Our new offense gives us a triple option that enables us to better utilize our personnel and hopefully keep our opponents off balance.

Koichi Tanaka

My specific task was to search for a matrix that would enable non-destructive ionization of macromolecules by efficiently absorbing the laser energy.

Krish Krishnan

It enables the seller of the stock -- that is, management -- to price the issue right. It also enables management to pick the right investor.

Graham Walker

It enables the replication to keep going and tolerate the damage, even though it doesn't get rid of it.

Matt Ridley

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

Eric Ripert

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Loretta Napoleoni

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Elie Cohen

There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts are hard to reconcile with the idea of European integration.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

John McGary

He is going to be pushing for it.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

Ron Barber

My staff would probably tell you that I don't want to leave events very quickly, and they're always pushing me to get me out the door.

York State

I was pushing for it from the beginning,

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Jon Purnell

There are only so many resources that can be allocated to these programs.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Pauletta Vaughn

There are so many more resources in Harrisburg. I have a boatload of supporters there.

Michael Birch

Resources have underpinned the strength of the market.

William Green

I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.

Larry Gibson

We have all the resources we need at this time.

Theron Roschen

It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.

Robert Mahon

That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.