Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Chloe Sevigny

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

David Gray

Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

Dave Barry

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

David Rakoff

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

Carlos Santana

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

Catherynne M. Valente

Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

Casey Abrams

I like kissing people because it's funny.

Casey Affleck

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

Bill Keller

I don't have dating tips.

Ed Sheeran

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

Matt Prokop

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Nicholas Haslam

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

Bill Coleman

When we were dating it was in a Model A. And we've owned one ever since.

Benjamin Franklin

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Ben Affleck

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

Barbra Streisand

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

S. E. Hinton

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.