Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Catherine Tate

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Mark Cuban

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Charles Lindbergh

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Luke Mitchell

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Bertrand Russel

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

Fritz Lang

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

George Benson

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Clive Sinclair

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Elsa Peretti

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

R. Ingram

We have said we are in this for the long haul and we mean it.

Stewart Udall

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Barney Roling

We've got to haul manure. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when.

Fred Taylor

We've hauled off 40,000 yards of material to a certified landfill.

Jim Whitaker

It is not a highway, ... In our meeting in Washington, it was referred to as a highway. It is not. It is a haul road.

Charles Harper

They got a rope around him and they just couldn't haul him in. The water there is awfully cold.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We got our legs moving. Everyone started skating. You do that they've got to haul you down every once in a while.

Evan Dreyer

He's in it for the long haul regardless.

Kathy Deepe

Before, you would haul out the language books, and they would start groaning.

Charlie Hunnam

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

John Danley

Life is a distasteful party, but it is the only one I'm invited to.

Lance Gross

It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

Michael Sullivan

We've been invited to meet with them and we're considering it at this stage.

Becky G

I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

Evan Spiegel

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.

Irwin M. Jacobs

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

Ricky Skaggs

We'd like to invite you to become our newest member,

Valerie Cruz

I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Mark Ploger

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.

Austin O'Malley

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Gene Detroyer

What we have to do is get the plant inspected.

William Cullen Bryant

We plant, upon the sunny lea,A shadow for the noontide hour,A shelter from the summer shower,When we plant the apple-tree.

William Cullen Bryant

We plant, upon the sunny lea, A shadow for the noontide hour, A shelter from the summer shower, When we plant the apple-tree.

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Mary Johnson

Without the Wheelchair Recycling Program, we can't do what we do.

Mike Quigley

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Beezer Molten

Here, all waste will be viewed as a recycling opportunity.

Lewis Carroll

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Jodie Foster

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.