Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Bill Johnson

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Beth Moore

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Bill Wyman

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Patrik Elias

We're going to have to shadow someone else.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Benjamin Netanyahu

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

William Shakespeare

We were not born to sue, but to command.

E. L. James

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

Holly Black

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Christine Lagarde

Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

George Bernard Shaw

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Michael Gove

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

Eric Hoffer

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Zainab Salbi

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.