Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

Charles Dickens

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Charles Dickens

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Charles Dickens

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Charles Dickens

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

Charles Dickens

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

Charles Dickens

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Diana Gabaldon

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

Celia Cruz

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

Celia Cruz

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

Cecilia Bartoli

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

David Sedaris

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

David Cross

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

C.J. Wilson

I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.

Kurt Vonnegut

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Diablo Cody

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Diablo Cody

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Chad Kroeger

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Demetri Martin

I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way.

Bob Dylan

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.