Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Immelt

The reason for doing this is simple -- I want more direct contact with the financial services teams,

John Brady

We still think Tyrus will be ready to go. He did all he could do and he felt a little pain, which is going to happen. He took himself out of contact and he'll come back and try to go a little longer.

E. O. Wilson

We?re in contact with three national movie chains. One of our goals is to put a movie theater on the eastern side of the property. It?s a high priority goal.

Nick Frost

Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

Simon Brown

What the office does in terms of the pardon process is the pardon petition is submitted with reasons and letters. We contact the sentencing judge and the attorney. We talk to the Department of Corrections, who puts together a package. We do not take a stance. Then the pardon petition is sent to the governor and the Executive Council for a decision.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Allard Beutel

We're getting into contact with people. We're trying to take a head count.

Bob Williams

Vehicle safety ultimately comes down to the contact patch between the tyre and the road. And when it comes to snow and ice, we really need a better understanding.

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.

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.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

John the Apostle

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Sharon Stone

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Bootsy Collins

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Erika Eleniak

I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Peter Marshall

We are looking to jumpstart the program, ... This is not a short-term fix.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Charles Ramsey

We are looking into the possibility that it is gang-related, but we are not certain,

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Charlie Hunnam

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Tommy Shaw

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Brian Mulroney

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Asa Hutchinson

She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan,