Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles Simmons

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

Alan Bennett

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

Chris Brown

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

Diane von Furstenberg

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

David Sedaris

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

Dave Barry

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Dave Barry

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Marvin Emerson

We knew they were solid. That team can play, and we knew that. We had a little bit of an off night, but they gave us all we wanted.

Kerry Janquart

We knew they were sagging off us a bit, so we knew if we could keep them honest a bit from the outside, it would open up the inside.

E. Hicks

We knew they were going to have great defensive pressure. I think they got us out of our offense a little bit. So I think in those situations we need to stay poised and execute our offense a little bit better. I think that's what we are going to work on as we continue Pac-10s.

Steve Edmiston

We knew they were going to bring pressure. Early on it took a little bit of adjustment, but once we made that we were fine.

Kevin O'Leary

We knew they were a good skating team. We came out trying to force their hand with some hitting and our guys got caught up in that a little bit too much. We lost sight of the puck and they're a very good team. They find their open players very well.

Mark Mugiishi

We lacked the consistent play throughout the game to win. We were too streaky. It's hard to win like that. You have to be able to sustain an effort a little bit better.

Brendan Morrison

We know we're not getting any younger. We're a team that gained quite a bit of experience here the last four years of the playoffs. We've also had early exits the last four years.

Mark Freeman

We know we're going to see eight or nine guys in the box, so we've got to throw it a bit to help our running game,

Charlie Daniels

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,

Charlie Chaplin

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

Charles W. Pickering

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

Charles de Lint

How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

Charles de Lint

Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

Charles de Lint

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Charles de Lint

It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

Charles Dickens

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.

Charles Dickens

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

Mike Richardson

We've advertised and had some excellent applicants. We'll be holding interviews from next Monday and hope to make an appointment by the end of next week.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

Trisha Williams

We started off really well. We had an excellent passing night. Toward the end of the game, we got a little lackadaisical. But overall I was really happy with the way the girls played.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Sven Goran

Wayne Rooney is an excellent footballer. I know he is young but when he is on the pitch he doesn't seem very young.

Baltasar Gracian

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Adrian Griffin

We've got excellent scorers. Why do they need me to take shots away from them? I know what I need to do to help this team.

Dennis Martin

We have a solid team and we have high expectations. I can't tell you how hard the kids have worked, especially in the weight room. (Strength and conditioning coach) Rich Miller did an excellent job with their strength training and conditioning.

David Kemp

We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job under the circumstances of controlling those fires. That's just what you have to do is just be able to have the resources to get out and fight those fires.

David Mitchell

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Julie Foudy

She (Finch) is a wonderful person, and they want to see that. They want to interact with her and talk with her.

Mike Doody

Here, you have to interact with people of all kinds, make them feel comfortable. (Morgan is) conscientiousness and patient.

Enric Sala

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

Christopher Poole

I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.

Claudia Rankine

You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.

Rodney Brooks

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.

Paul Walker

The acquisition of Interact presents Sage with a number of significant opportunities.

Shahid Kapoor

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

John Neff

(We can put together something) for any occasion you'd want to give a gift,

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Charles Taze Russell

I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.

Charles Dickens

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

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.

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?

Joyce Haldeman

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

Tom Riley

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

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.

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

Dean Koontz

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Edmund Wilson

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Al Oerter

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Brian Bannister

When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Keegan Bradley

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Corin Tucker

When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.

Mike Candrea

She's pretty much week-to-week. She's still able to throw and do workouts right now.

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.