Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Caitriona Balfe

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Cameron Russell

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Daria Werbowy

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Suki Waterhouse

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

Alyssa Sutherland

When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.

Willard Boyle

Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.

Bryan Batt

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks?

Charles Darwin

There is something referred to as the 'Darwin industry' in science.

Grover Norquist

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.

John Glenn

At various times I've referred to him as 'Igor' or

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?