Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Castaneda

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

C. S. Lewis

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C. S. Lewis

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Charlie Chaplin

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

Bonnie Raitt

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

Ron Jaworski

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

Mona Sutphen

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

Larry Rice

I think the most relevant thing is the market was down 120 yesterday. I think we're going to have a knee jerk reaction back up.

Bill Burr

Don't be a jerk to other comics and don't let the business beat you down, stay positive and if you work your ass off you're going to get somewhere.

Bill Hicks

Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.

David Letterman

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

Carolyn See

There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Tom Guiry

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Tom Mison

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

Brian Eno

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Diane von Furstenberg

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Michael Meacher

We did fail last night. It is a tragedy, but it's a reversible tragedy and we will now put together those last final loose ends that we didn't have the time to do last night.

Kofi Annan

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.