Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Tom Burnett

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

Florentino Perez

The person who coaches Real Madrid needs to be disciplined, rigorous and professional.

Robert Whitney

We are pretty much on the same page on everything, ... She coaches third, I coach first, and we have been in the same programs since we were little and have had the same coaches. We know how important it is for the girls to have good coaches and a good experience, and we are making sure they get both.

Derek Thomas

We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now.

Rubin Carter

We still won't be great risk-takers. That is something that I am going to mandate for myself. We have to do a great job of evaluating potential recruits. It's also our role as coaches to motivate and let them know what they need to do to graduate.

Omar Stoutmire

When you've got as many guys as we have getting significant playing time during the playoffs, it makes you feel like a starter and part of the system. They're counting on you. You don't want to let your teammates down, let the coaches down or let the organization down.

Nell Fortner

When you've got a program that hasn't been tended to for 40 years - and that's not to disrespect any coaches or players or administrators - but a program that hasn't been tended to by the administration - then you've got a lot of ground to make up.

Tyrone Willingham

When you take that job, you understand. And I think that's one of the reasons that I took the job, because it is a place that has had some of the most prestigious coaches in the country with some of the greatest accomplishments in football. So, you take it knowing that. And hopefully you're prepared to try to live up to that type of manner.

Wayne Norton

We actually didn't get the place we thought we were going to get, but we have very high expectations each year in this event. Taking second, fourth and 10th place is very good, but our coaches are still not necessarily satisfied. But this was a great start for us and hopefully we'll have some more good things happen (Saturday).

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.

Barry Trotz

We're in pretty elite company. I told the team that if we can do something special, go for it.

Michelle Malkin

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Mamata Banerjee

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Dan Glickman

Shutting down illegal file swapping networks like Elite Torrents is an essential part of our fight to stop movie thieves from stealing copyrighted materials.

Chuck D.

The fact is this is an elite group of individuals. The fact is we want an elite group of individuals,

Bob Blecher

Last year was the first time Patrice had to be a leader on the field. This year, being a senior and one of the area's elite players, I think she's more willing to take on that responsibility.

Becky Lofstead

We're kind of capitalizing on last year's run to the Elite Eight.

Chris Bosh

To be a part of the world's elite instead of the just league's elite is a little more special.

Gloria Reuben

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Dan Barnett

This was not a bathing suit scenario. This was a grown man exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl.

Hussein Chalayan

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

Sevyn Streeter

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

Ban Ki-moon

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Rachel Sklar

For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

Brady Hoke

I think we all have to be a little more sensible about what we're trying to do. There is something to be said about exposing your program to the nation, but playing three BCS teams a year? That takes its toll.

Wayne Krivsky

He's a quick-read guy. We're exposing him to all phases of the operation. We'll see where he fits in.

Mariella Frostrup

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.

Alan Hansen

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

David Leadbetter

Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.

David Leadbetter

Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

Dave Barry

I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.

Dave Barry

You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.

Dave Barry

If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.

Dave Barry

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Dave Barry

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Buddy Hackett

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Foley

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Benicio Del Toro

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Elizabeth Pena

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Carolyn Murphy

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Ali Babacan

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,