Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

Charles Dickens

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Charles Dickens

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.

Charles Dickens

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Chris Colfer

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

Dave Barry

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Cesare Pavese

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

Carter G. Woodson

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

Camille Paglia

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Brad Paisley

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Delson

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.