Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Jan Mills

West Lafayette has been recognized as having the lowest city property tax and recognized for helping the Indiana community grow.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Donald Tusk

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

David Caruso

Simply the size and complexity of the global financial system, just what occurs on a daily basis, legitimately, it's 24 hours a day, when you look at Asia, Europe, Latin America, the U.S. And to track all that, it's an impossibility.

John Gatins

She has a complexity and a gift no other actor on the planet has, especially one who is young.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

Daniel Kahneman

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Nick Mason

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

Gregory Stock

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

Greg Boyle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Aaron Guillen

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Jerome Antone

We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Omar Vizquel

Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest.

Art Shell

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Denis Waitley

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Anne Stillman

We want to preserve as much of the historic fabric as is possible.

Charles Ives

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Arundhati Roy

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

Ralph Lauren

The fabrics, whether it be hand-painted prints at the end, or whether it be new knits and stretch fabrics ... sort of make the whole world.

Liberty Ross

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas.

John Barton

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Leos Carax

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Gordon Campbell

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Daniel Everett

One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Benjamin Franklin

Success is the residue of planning.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Dorothy Teeter

The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer.

Dennis Conner

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

Juergen Klinsmann

Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Ai Weiwei

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Charles Grodin

It seems there are no rich on death row.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Rose Davis

I don't think we've ever had the urban involvement that we've had with this year's hurricanes.

Narendra Modi

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Carine Roitfeld

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

Frederick Pollock

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Michael Kors

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Samira Wiley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.