Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Mark Ruffalo

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

Scott Robertson

waiting until the end of the year and crossing our fingers and hoping that our students will pass.

Eric Holder

I actually think that the dotting of the i's and the crossing of the t's is what separates the United States, the United Kingdom, our allies, from those who we are fighting.

Denise Tyrrell

She drove around the crossing gates, apparently. The gates were down and everything was functioning as it was supposed to.

John Ferguson

Security trumps trade. Security has become the priority when crossing borders.

Mary Harron

She's sexy, but she's very ladylike. There is something kind of 1950s about her, like she's wearing white gloves or crossing her ankles.

Elli Ochowicz

She's been an inspiration to all of us. We were really crossing our fingers hoping that she would get it.

Tika Sumpter

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.

Tasneem Aslam

No crossing of people would take place on Monday because we have not yet exchanged the lists of people wanting to cross.

Josh Page

We want to pressure them and get some turnovers right away. Hopefully we can pressure their guards and not let them get comfortable in the half-court set.

David Reeves

We have security guards here and we monitor quite a bit.

Mark Turgeon

We guarded out tails off all day. We got every stop we needed until the very end.

Steve Fisher

We guarded better. We were the reason, in my opinion, that they were 5-for-20.

Tom Rossley

We're going to let those guards play a lot during the game.

Tim Ehresman

We're going to have to guard them very tough. And Joe (Kalb) will be guarding one of the post guys.

Floyd Irons

We knew they wanted to run and we tried to stop them from doing that. Man, those guards are good.

John Jay

Shoot, he plays every position on the court. He's just a guy who hurts you in whatever position he plays no matter who guards him.

Gina Johnson

She allows us to play the style we do. She can guard any perimeter player and give us a lot of diversity.

Don Samuel

We wanted very much to keep him alive. Jim wanted to learn very much about the appellate process and (have) another day in court.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Angel Jr.

Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better. When he won the Jim Dandy, he was doing good. He's doing better now.

Allan Houston

Let's pray for Jim Dolan. Let's pray for our organization.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Leslie Hope

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

William Sadler

I enjoyed 'Roswell' a lot, and I had a lot of fun playing Jim Valenti. I had never done a show that lasted as long as that - that one lasted three years.

Jim Calhoun

To go in with Jim is very fitting. I couldn't get somebody that I've been so parallel with over the past 20 years as Jim Boeheim.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Tony Gwynn

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

Nancy Gibbs

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Lynn Samuels

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.

Khloe Kardashian

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

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.