Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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.

Diana Gabaldon

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?

Charlie Sheen

The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?

Janine Benyus

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

Cecelia Ahern

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

Brendan Fraser

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Cheryl Strayed

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

Cheryl Strayed

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Cheryl Strayed

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

Cheryl Strayed

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Charles de Gaulle

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Alan Parker

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.

David Mitchell

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

David Niven

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

Byron Katie

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.