Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

Charles Spurgeon

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Bruno Heller

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Caryl Churchill

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Billy Horschel

What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer. Fans are having a hard time walking the course. They can barely see anything from outside the ropes. I would be pissed if I paid a lot of money for tickets and could barely see the top players hit golf shots.

Billy Joel

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Natsuo Kirino

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

Julian Bumbrey

We're extremely proud of where we are. We didn't know much about Prince Edward, but we knew they earned the right to be here and we had to be ready.

John Stevens

We know him well and he has already earned our respect and admiration,

Amy Pettibone

When there's instant success, there is this expectation that (making it that far) is the norm and that we're always going to be there. What a lot of people don't realize is that the region is a lot tougher than before. Every team that has made it this far has earned it.

Sandra Cisneros

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

Al Aldridge

She earned the respect of her teammates through her performance. The team was smart enough to realize they needed her if they were going to reach their goals.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

China Mieville

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Maajid Nawaz

During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Billy Gibbons

Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things.

Dayron Robles

The objective is to do things well in London.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Joey Porter

I have my parade in my head, how I would plan it. But I can't tell you. It's a secret.

Jim Berg

This will make it meaningful, and especially if it is part of the River Parade and the two other parades.

Liz Huff

We would like to see the parade re-energized with more entries too.

Jerry Mitchell

I think he thought he was going to get a parade when he killed Medgar Evers.

Oriana Fallaci

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

Elliott Smith

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

P. J. O'Rourke

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

Frank Gendreau

They take part in parades all over the Northeast.

Phil Durocher

Sometimes, when there's a parade forming, you have to be able to see that and get in line.

Donald Glover

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

David Gilmour

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

Rob Gronkowski

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

Royce Waltman

He's been practicing and he's in school, but I'm not sure what his status is going to be.

Chuck Barta

If it wasn't a bye week, he probably would be practicing and going through the things he had been going through.

Dan Brown

If we aren't practicing now we're going to be in trouble in April.

Aaron Ciechanover

I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

Ryan Griffin

We've been practicing hard. Right now, we're clicking.

Scott Baugh

We're tired of practicing and we're tired of scrimmaging. We're ready to play.

Don Franklin

We spotted them their runs. We were not sharp, not making the routine plays.

Edith Wharton

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Deborah Fallows

Web surfing has kind of taken its rightful place as a routine activity. It's not necessarily a time killer, but a time filler.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

Daniel Goleman

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

Edward Abbey

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Jamie Moyer

Physical therapy is part of my offseason routine. That has helped me greatly.

Brittany Snow

I'm pretty minimal when it comes to my beauty routine and always have been.

Alastair Campbell

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Source Unknown

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.