Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Jim Rice

We want to see it cleaned up. There?s no reason to have lead on the ground.

Edmund Daukoru

We've already played this gimmick, ... We want to play clean so we don't even raise the ceiling.

Lil Mama

Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.

Bob Newhart

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Barry Bonds

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Bertolt Brecht

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Carol Leifer

My stand-up act is very clean.

Martin Lee

We have to get all that cleaned out.

Charlie Parker

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

John Palmer

It was supposedly investigated, but I don't know that anything's happened. I think probably nothing has happened.

Leo Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Moises Alou

When things are like this, I swear to you, you play better as a team.

Dane Cook

When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.

Irene Dunne

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Jennifer Lopez

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Harry Potter

I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

J. D. Salinger

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

Minnie Driver

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

Peter Jacobson

Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

David Copperfield

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

Christopher McDougall

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Alice Hoffman

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Confucius

Behind every smile there's teeth.

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

Kevin Rahm

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Chiang Kai-shek

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Dave Chappelle

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.