Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

John Pearson

Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost; and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.

George Romero

So many execs don't get or understand the horror genre, they're used to being involved with story or plot, and when they're in a genre that they don't get or have affection for, it gets difficult.

Josh Billings

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

H. Hunt

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can equally enjoy the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Kevin Evans

More consumers have more discretionary income. This is an occasion that brings out the inner child in us all. And Canadian consumers have shown a real affection for Halloween.

Henry Montherlant

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end

Craig Dollase

I wish the Sunshine Millions was here. He really has an affinity for this course.

Rene Auberjonois

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Alexandra Adornetto

Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature.

Rick Perlstein

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Malorie Blackman

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Mark Hummel

Man, I didn't want to see it when we're up 21-nothing. But, we got something done when it counted. We've obviously got to correct a lot of mistakes, but the boys feel good about winning right now.

Doug Pederson

Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there.

Nick Swisher

Let's get those left-field bleacher boys ready to go. I had a great time in right last year, but left field is where it's always been.

Gerry Fleming

Second place is on the line here, boys!

Abdul Aziz

Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.

Cate Blanchett

Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

John Koh

So for us we have already forgotten about the Malaysia Cup.

D. W. Griffith

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Elizabeth Bibesco

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

Elin Hilderbrand

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

Andrew Raycroft

I guess, in a way, it's good that that didn't happen this past April. I don't think any of us who played in that series have forgotten it, though. I know it's a night I'll never forget.

Mary Wittenberg

We predicted and hoped for a race for the ages. And we got one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it.

Virender Sehwag

We have already forgotten that. We are now looking forward to the World Cup. That was the past. Now, with so many youngsters in the team, we are looking ahead.

Neil Gaiman

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

David Williams

Maybe it's just the old golden rule: Treat someone else the way you'd like to be treated.

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Richard Aboulafia

If they do this right, they are golden for a long time.

Christopher Guest

I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita and half something else.

Chris Castro

This strategy makes a lot of sense for us. There's a golden opportunity for us in DVD.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Geoff Blum

Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.

Stuart Appleby

We don't have that golden child. It's tricky at the moment because they're all waiting for someone to step out of the darkness.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

David Bowie

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

Cameron Crowe

She's an old soul. You will find her to be one of the more mature 23-year-olds on the planet.

Bernard Williams

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

Attallah Zeidan

We still need time to mature politically. It will take time.

Bram Cohen

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

Jack Agostino

He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.

Keith Guttin

He has a very mature approach. He's not loud, but he's competitive. Very competitive.

Sven Eriksson

He has suddenly become a mature player, which he may not have been before. He did what no one else could do (on the pitch), but he did it a little too often.

Mark Fox

Nick has matured and been able to make other people better.

Joan Felt

My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man.

Bill Gates

No one will ever need more then 640K Memory

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Natalie Williams

Hopefully, we'll be making (a memory) in the next three weeks. That would be a perfect way to end a career.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Doug Noble

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

Brian Daubach

Missed it by one day again. Hopefully, the next time is for real.

Lou Schmidt

Obviously we saw things totally different that the officials did. They even missed numbers. We had one player ejected who was on the bench. He wasn't even part of it. But the outcome of it all was that Berkley got right back into the game.

Joe Kines

Neither can you rush everybody. Then you're one missed tackle away from a touchdown.

David Briggs

We had a very nice rally yesterday and now you have some people wanting to take profits and others who missed out wanting to swoop in now.

Lars Tiffany

I feel like we missed an opportunity to get better.

Paul Stanton

For some reason, we weren't sharp on offense, ... We had pass routes open, but we missed some. Defensively I was pleased. We were really able to slow them down.

Brandon Jacobs

On the first one, I missed the guy. He ran right by my face, and that was my fault. But I redeemed myself on the second one, and we took it to the house.

Brandon Jacobs

On the first one, I missed the guy, ... He ran right by my face, and that was my fault. But I redeemed myself on the second one, and we took it to the house.

Morris Hatalsky

I was solid tee-to-green, but I missed some putts.

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

Lois Lowry

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Nell Leyshon

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Ben Jonson

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

David Bowie

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Jason Segel

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

Bill Gates

If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.

Danielle Harris

I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.

Joanna Lumley

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Bhagavad Gita

Scarcely any one of the striving, or even the perfected persons, truly understands Me.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Dick Van Dyke

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Dominic West

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

David Bowie

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

David Bowie

I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

David Neeleman

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.