Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Michael Price

Whether they're jukebox musicals I hate the term or new and hip, you gotta pick songs that support the story. If you don't feel for the characters, if you're not worrying about what is going to happen, you're going to fail.

Natalie Cole

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

Joseph Carroll

With my cousin?s situation, I think maybe he got too many breaks, ... You gotta give people motivation to get out of that lifestyle.

Terry Zwigoff

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

James Burrows

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

Hal McManus

We've got to run him out of the gym some nights because we've gotta get the laundry done.

Pat Gillick

I don't think you can be too impulsive. At the right point, when you see a window open, then you gotta move. But until that window opens, don't try to open it yourself.

Bootsy Collins

Well, you know, anything's possible. We gotta save something for a surprise.

Jeff Ruland

He'll play. He's played very well at times and we're playing a big physical team (today) so he's gotta be ready to roll.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

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.

Bill Rancic

I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.

Barry Eichengreen

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

Carine Roitfeld

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

Cameron Diaz

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

Carson Kressley

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

Blake Michael

I usually always start with the jeans, which is weird because most guys, I would say, start with a shirt and build around the shirt. I always start with the jeans and I have so many jeans. I have an entire rack of just jeans.

Brooke Shields

If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?

Trinny Woodall

Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.

Laura McDowell

So many different things are in this year. The overall look and feel is a little more modest than in years past. We're not seeing bellies. The jeans are back to a normal height. On boys, we're seeing lots of layering.

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Daniel Handler

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Bridget Moynahan

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

Ruta Gedmintas

I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers!

Jon Gruden

I wouldn't probably give up a pair of nine-and-a-half turf shoes for me,

Boomer Walker

I think if we come out and play well tomorrow, we should be able to pick up a pair of wins.

Brendan Fehr

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Gary Sinise

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Tracy McMillan

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

Charles Stross

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

Nick Woodman

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Scott Peterson

She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly.

Coco Chanel

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Carine Roitfeld

I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

Alexandra Roach

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

Greg Ostertag

He's been wearing that thing as long as I can remember.