Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Sturt

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Bruno Heller

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Edmund White

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Anton Chekhov

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

David Mamet

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

John Cale

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Henry Flynt

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Paul Valery

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Phyllis McGinley

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

Nicolas Cage

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Eli Manning

My approach never changes from start to start.

Bruce Hornsby

Some things will never change.

Douglas Horton

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Allyson Felix

I feel like I'm always going to be me. It always goes back to being the person that I am. And I hope that will never change.

Myles Munroe

You will never change anything that you are willing to tolerate.

Myles Munroe

You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid.

Joyce Carol Oates

I never change, I simply become more myself.

Peter Lynch

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

Jim Rohn

If you don't change your approach than you will never change your results!