Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Spencer Roecker

We knew they were very athletic, but they weren't hitting their jump shots in the first half.

Kelly Hawthorne

We know if we pass it out they can hit the shots.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Dave Murray

We are positioning ourselves to hit every potential Internet segment out there.

Roderick Wilmont

We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us.

Michael Redd

We struggled. We had a lot of open looks, but it wasn't our night to hit them. We just never got in a rhythm from the three-point line. But once again, we try not to live by that.

A. Hodge

We stopped at the stoplight and he just hit me.

Craig Gibson

We started off slow offensively, but we made some adjustments. I'm really proud of the way we hit the ball. We didn't panic. Once we got going, it was sort of contagious.

Charles Wagner

Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

Charles Dudley Warner

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles de Lint

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

Charles de Lint

I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

Charles de Lint

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

E. Hicks

We've (shot) very poor percentages and come out with a win. We just need to play harder. We lacked physical, tough play for 40 minutes.