Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Taylor

We're in an information age, yet from a public notification perspective, we're still ... in the Stone Age,

Mark Twain

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Peggy Sell

We want everyone to feel that their library card is special, regardless of their age. We want them to know that, as soon as you get a library card, it becomes part of your life.

William Wordsworth

With Nature never do they wageA foolish strife; they seeA happy youth, and their old ageIs beautiful and free.

Paul Sereno

We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.

Dr. Cykiert

We're expecting to see more age-related macular degeneration because the baby boomer generation is approaching that age, and everyone is living longer. It potentially could be devastating.

Ed Fox

We're father and son. When I was his age, I did the same things. I got caught for things. I never got caught as many times as he did, but I had trouble in school.

Evan Hendricks

Ultimately, it's a human rights issue in the information age.

Goldie Hawn

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

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.

Alan Paton

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

Chris Cleave

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Cesare Pavese

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...

Jones Very

The poets of the present day who would raise the epic song cry out, like Archimedes of old, "give us a place to stand on and we will move the world." This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty.

Marilyn Marinelli

We are a voice crying in the wilderness.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

Francis Bacon

What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?

Jamie Carragher

Whenever we play Chelsea, we always seem to get penalties that aren't given, but we don't cry too much about what happened.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

Chris Cleave

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

William Shakespeare

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

Abba Eban

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Benjamin Franklin

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Diane Cilento

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Desiderius Erasmus

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

Jane Horrocks

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

Kevin Henkes

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Bob Baffert

When he hit the wire, his ears went up and he wanted to shut down. He's still immature.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

Abraham Cowley

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Alex Pettyfer

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

Aldo Leopold

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

Aaron Paul

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

D. H. Lawrence

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Chloe Sevigny

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

David Gray

Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

Dave Barry

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

David Rakoff

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

Carlos Santana

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

Catherynne M. Valente

Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

Casey Abrams

I like kissing people because it's funny.

Casey Affleck

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

China Chow

I'm so private and I don't know why!

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

David Murphy

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

Byron Katie

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

Jane Austen

Know your own happiness.

Scott Ishikawa

When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.

Bill Joy

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Billy Graham

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Rush Limbaugh

Do you think if there was any real evidence, we would have reached a settlement?

Larry Baer

We've reached out to her and she referred us to her son. We're working with the son to see what if anything to do.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

S. Hughes

Everyone wants to know, what's your secret? Nothing! No secrets. I'll tell you what's in my chili.

Sandra Brown

Even we have secrets here in Middleburg, Florida, even though we're on Wisteria Lane,

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Charlotte Bronte

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

Ray Bradbury

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

William Shakespeare

Foul whisperings are abroad

Gordon B. Hinckley

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Errol Flynn

It's not what they say about you, it's what they whisper

John Keats

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

Ray Bradbury

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Malcolm Turnbull

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Simmons

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.