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.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Aleksandar Hemon

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Daniel Kahneman

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Anthony Hopkins

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Jean-Paul Sartre

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

Charlize Theron

I don't like rehearsal.

Brad Dourif

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

Cory Michael Smith

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

Brett Ratner

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

Alison Pill

I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.

Donald Rupe

I don't think we've had a rehearsal where someone hasn't cried.

Dylan Moran

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

Angela Lansbury

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.