Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Lee Ritenour

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.

Katherine Jenkins

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

Source Unknown

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never ''takes.'' You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

Darius Rucker

I'd work with Justin any time. I think he's a great artist. I think our voices would be perfect together, with my baritone and his tenor, we'd be awesome.

Shamir

I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.

David Bowie

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

Toby Keith

There are a couple of things that are really brought home from a female perspective. In the studio I sing hard, and she softened that up. On 'Crash Here Tonight' she said 'You have a rich baritone voice, and I think this song can be just as sexy as all get out. Let's keep it in this register. Let it be sassy and intimate.

Michael Britt

I think if you don't put as many tracks on it, you can get better tone on all the tracks you do have. It lets the vocals stand out, especially on the song like 'I Never Needed You' with Sara Evans, who sings that with Richie. That track is so sparse, there's just so much room for their voices to take up the speakers. I even play baritone guitar on that just so I don't play a lot of frequencies that are even in the vocal range. To me it's just, that song opens up everything for the vocals to do what they do.

Gerry Mulligan

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

Amy Baker

We want to stress that there's more downside and uncertainty ahead. But we remain optimistic that the strength of Florida's overall economy will carry us through.

Nancy Mui

We are proud to be able to carry traditional Chinese furniture styles that were popular in the 12th century.

Pete Long

We stood toe-to-toe with Schuylkill Haven and, except for a two-possession stretch late in the third quarter, held our own. We matured as a team tonight and hopefully can carry this effort into the District 4 tournament.

Steve Squyres

We still want to get to the summit of Husband Hill and then head down into the 'Inner Basin' on the other side. But now we have more flexibility in how we carry out the plan. Before, it was climb or die.

Jon Macken

We started off slowly but we seemed to have turned that round and hopeful-ly we can just carry on the way we're going and push on,

Maurice Carroll

Where she actually stands on stuff has very little to do with the way people feel about her. It's going to carry over into a national race because the people that love her, love her and the people that don't, hate her.

Tom Bradley

When you travel, people don't realize that you can only carry so many guys. He gives us an extra guy at a lot of different spots. He could go in and even play corner if we got in a real jam. He understands the schemes and everything we're doing so that's a real plus for us.

Lucio Tan

A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

David Sedaris

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

James A. Moore

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

Erin McKean

A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

Damien Hirst

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Drew Brees

Me and Gates, we laughed in the weight room today because that wasn't our 'A' game,

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Chris Collins

We laughed over a new mobile phone which neither of us could make work.

Alan King

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Manolo Saiz

Someone laughed at me when I said it, but I think that Roberto is a rider for second efforts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

David Seabury

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

David S. Rose

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

David Sarnoff

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Carolina Herrera

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

William Shakespeare

Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wendy E. Long

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Bill Richardson

My view is that the secretary should step aside.

Philip Reeker

The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.

J. Stoltzfus

This is the secretary of transportation bill, that's what this is.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

Hillary Clinton

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.