Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Brad Paisley

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Delson

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Boz Scaggs

I'm not a jazz singer.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Todd Galloway

We have to get over what happened and understand that we have something to play for. We just have to forget about it.

Charlotte Bronte

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Tove Jansson

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

David Morrissey

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Dave Barry

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

Buddy Guy

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

Cesare Lombroso

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Jane Addams

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.