Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

Charles Dickens

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

Charles Dickens

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

Charles Dickens

You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.

Charles Dickens

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Charles Dickens

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Charles Stross

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet ...

Charles Spurgeon

I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.

Alan Moore

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Deborah Harkness

Her bark is worse than her bite.

Joe Browne

When we got to the patient, the dog was a good 50 yards away. He kept creeping up and barking at the firetruck.

Tom Waits

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

Marilyn Marinelli

Some 41 percent of dogs are brought into pounds because they bark too much. You can teach dogs to bark on command, you can teach them not to bark.

Lillie Langtry

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.

Seung Sahn

American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.

Isabella Bird

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

Ken Parker

Buddy is really going to enjoy this, because he's so inquisitive, ... He'll watch TV and bark at it.

Andrew Mason

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.

Dylan Moran

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Bill Burr

Actually they [ Netflix] were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.

Jilly Cooper

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Esther Hicks

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

Elton John

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Frances Bean Cobain

I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.