Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Charles Spurgeon

In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.

Charles Spurgeon

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

Alan Ball

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

Chief Seattle

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Darren Shan

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

David Satcher

Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak

Cesare Pavese

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.

Louise Jameson

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Michael Strahan

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Richard Tucker

The person we chose brought a lot of skills and experience and credentials,

Alberto Romulo

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

Mike Ryan

We are probably looking at six months to two years before some of these outbreaks can be brought under total control in the poultry population.

Roger Hatch

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.

Paul Grayson

We started the game like a house on fire and scored three tries, then we lost our shape in the middle a bit, but brought it back towards the end.

Nate Dahlman

We started looking, and God brought us here.

Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Charles Dickens

Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Charles Caleb Colton

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Kenneth Choi

When you're working on a huge, elaborate set that took months to create, and you're surrounded by hundreds of extras, you better remember your lines and know what you're doing in a scene!

Manish Agarwal

We knew they were going to come and had made elaborate arrangements for it.

Russell Smith

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Paul Provenza

We didn't shoot it like a real movie, ... We never set up lights, we didn't do anything elaborate with sound, we never did makeup or anything like that, because every time something like that happens, it's another layer of artifice.

Sean Booth

We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it.

Kevin Oh

For such elaborate traits to evolve, you have to have mating patterns where everyone wants the same thing.

Elizabeth Nosek

His menus were very simple. They were not overblown and elaborate in the Victorian sense. You could taste the freshness and quality.

David Simons

I think our show is the most elaborate in terms of what it is trying to say about the American city. I'm proud of what we're trying to address.

David Chang

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Mike Aresco

We are pleased to present the excitement of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships live to our viewers. We look forward to a great event and the opportunity to highlight the outstanding achievements of the track and field student-athletes.

Roger Wilkins

We are looking forward, and already planning for an even greater event for 2006.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Roland Swenson

We started out planning the event hoping we'd get 150 people, so we were happy.

Jacques Chirac

Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

David Sedaris

I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.

Dave Barry

I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

Dave Barry

So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!

William Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Billy Joel

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Audrina Patridge

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Ariel Pink

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Vince Suriano

We played hard, but we were haunted by the big play.

Bruce Udvari

Serves haunted us. You give up 10 points to any team and that's not good. I have to give the kids credit. They stuck in there.

Ron Rash

I've always been haunted that he might have been.

Bret Ellis

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Sue Smith

It's looking less and less haunted all the time,

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Tariq Anwar

I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

Erin McKean

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Cameron Russell

I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

Tom Stoppard

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be

John Whiting

We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

The Talmud

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

Joyce Haldeman

The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues.

Ronda Reid

We're able to make more successful connections between student sitters and parents.

David Bell

We're a product of our parents, whether we like it or not.

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Kristen Staab

Yes, she was treated differently. She was treated better by my parents than she's been treated her whole life.

Michael Williams

There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it?

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Dave Craig

Saturdays we always have a lot of browsers -- teachers and tourists.

Peggy Smith

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Catherine Johnson

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.