Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

Charles Caleb Colton

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

Alan Watts

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

David Amram

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

David Ansen

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

David LaChapelle

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

Buddy Hackett

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Michael Connelly

When you surf, the ultimate goal is to get into a pipeline where the water circles around you and that's all there is. In writing, it's the same thing. You want to get into this pipeline where the story is circling around you and that's all there is. That is writing nirvana to me.

Bill Parcells

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Norm MacDonald

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

Frank Mastalerz

We're going to look like we're guilty of something when it's just comedians and vaudeville dancing.

Dave Chappelle

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

Bill O'Reilly

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

Cedric the Entertainer

When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess