Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Alan Pardew

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Jane Austen

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

David Hyde Pierce

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

Beth Moore

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

Jim Butcher

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

John Mayer

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Mitt Romney

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I’m going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek)

Johnny Knoxville

But I can still lick the spoon!

Michael Fassbender

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

Liam Payne

I've always had a strange fear of spoons.

Mark Leary

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

Hugh Kingsmill

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.

Michael Jackson

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

Randy Newman

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

Max Stirner

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Walt Whitman

I know perfectly well my own egotism.