Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Tove Lo

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Lewis Wade

They may be related. We don't know that for sure. Things have been tense over there for a long time.

John MacArthur

There was a tense atmosphere, ... When the end came, it was very abrupt.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick

Soren Kierkegaard

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

Richelle Mead

Eddie became about one percent less tense.

Mary Stazzone

She threw up all the meat, but we couldn't find the stick.

Adam Haluska

You don't really have much time to think about it. I didn't really look at the basket. Just kind of threw it up there in desperation.

Devan Downey

We didn't come to play, we got what we deserved. We threw it all over the gym. It wasn't one person. I wasn't there mentally.

Jeff Burton

I threw it away after the first week.

Mark Prior

I threw a lot in the first inning,

Yvette Girouard

I thought Dani was magnificent tonight. I thought she threw as well as she's thrown in a while.

Mary Murphy

We threw so much at her when she walked in the door. I think she's pretty prepped for the undertaking.

Rick Jackson

We threw it away and they went down and got a two-point lead.

Owen Elias

Ha, ha! We threw one of these away.