Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Alan Greenspan

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Alan Moore

Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.

Billy Carter

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

Brene Brown

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

Dennis Green

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

Edward Abbey

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

Eliot Spitzer

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

Eliot Spitzer

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Albert Einstein

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

Artie Lange

I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Barry Goldwater

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Henri Poincare

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.