Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Bill Robinson

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

Dick Durbin

Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it"?

Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Alan Keyes

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

Bill Lipinski

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Steve Rauschenberger

What he's going to do I think is stretch out the payment cycle. What he's going to do is essentially make the providers of the state of Illinois pay for it by paying them more re-imbursements and more slowly.

Dick Van Dyke

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

Bruce Rauner

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

Nancy Barr

To us, it's novel. In Illinois (where we are from), this would not sell. They don't like this style.

Don Murphy

We felt, in our organization, that it was better than to go and knock down trees,

Sheryl Neff

We're just knocking on the door, but can't quite push through. We're struggling a little bit.

Dan Campbell

We know if we can go up there and (win), then it pretty much knocks them out. But if we don't, then we give them new life, they're still in this thing.

Alex Johnson

Like all the wind was knocked out of you.

A. Johnson

(Luca) wasn't that sharp, especially after he got the wind knocked out of him. We were able to get into their bullpen, which is really important in the third (game of the series).

Tony Hawk

There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn't know any better. But I didn't have options then. People weren't knocking on my door.

Vance Downs

On a different night, we knock down some of those open looks, and obviously it's a different game.

Shawn Nelson

She had a rhythm look and knocked it down.

Sharon Versyp

(Minnesota) took Cyndi totally out of the game. Nikki (Smith) stepped in and was able to knock some shots down.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Casey Kasem

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Casey Kasem

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Ron Gardenhire

We're not going to mess with it. He's pitched enough.

Edwin Land

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Isaiah Swann

We want it. We feel hungry. But sometimes we mess ourselves up.

Brent Musburger

Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.

Bret Bielema

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Joe Johnson

The people of Michigan will play an important role in this survey,

Tom Izzo

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.

Dan Rather

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

Dick DeVos

We need to look at getting people in Michigan money in their pockets and do something tangible to reduce the price of gasoline.

Liz Boyd

We don't need a report out of Washington to tell us that people in Michigan are hurting.

Adam Haluska

Up there, we rolled over, no question, but I remember saying that I thought we were a better team than Michigan State.

Maurice Stovall

Michigan State just made more plays than we did.

Ira Glass

The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

Kat Graham

It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.

Chris Harrington

Personally, no, and I would say no for the rest of the team. There's no way we can. It's a one-and-done deal, and there's no way you can overlook a team.

Kathie Brown

I don't want it overlooked just because he was homeless.

Pete Asadourian

You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.

Corey Lessard

We had a lot to prove in that game. The second time we overlooked them. They played better and we played worse.

Rick Soracco

Right now, we're not in a position to overlook anybody.

Bob Marlin

The sad thing is we were overlooked by the NIT. We had a better record than 37 of the 40 (NIT) teams, and we're the only team with 22 wins sitting at home.

Pamela Anderson

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Hal Mumme

We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.

Mike Pomerenke

We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.

Dave Odom

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

Scooter Dunn

We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

Neal McDonough

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome.

Jeff Halpern

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

Travis Paquet

We're starting to come together. We played as a team, and I was very proud of them tonight.

Jeff Perreault

We're more prepared for it than the first time we played them.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Boris Becker

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Justin Vernon

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

Harry Houdini

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

Jeff Foxworthy

If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin.

Pat Buchanan

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.