Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Louis Navellier

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Maury Harris

We are seeing a 'soft landing' rather than a 'hard landing' in consumer spending for a couple of reasons. First, although job growth is slowing, wages are still rising, with average hourly earnings up 0.4% in October. Second, despite recent stock market turmoil, consumer spirits are holding up reasonably well.

H. Hunt

We started the game over-confident, and although we fell behind, I always knew they would pull through.

Thawat Suntrajarn

We believe that the boy contracted the virus from his surroundings because, although his family does not raise chickens, there are chickens raised in his neighborhood.

John Read

We believe that new-year allocations towards commodities will keep platinum and palladium firm in the near term and see platinum at $1,100/oz and palladium at $300/oz over one month, although we suspect that profit taking will set in at some stage and see both metals lower to $1,050/oz and $270/oz in three months.

Jim Bolla

We stood and waited too much instead of stepping toward the ball. We did not shoot well although we got some good looks.

Martin Jacques

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

Latrell Sprewell

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

Al Jarreau

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Gwen Stefani

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

Montel Williams

The whole idea of juicing is good if you are trying to diet and use it in limited basis. I use juice drinks only once a week. I use emulsified drinks because in emulsification you are keeping everything. You are keeping the pulp, you are keeping the skin with all of the phytonutrients.

Montel Williams

I've been able to learn a lot through diet and exercise, but I've got to tell you, it's having true love in your life and somebody who has your back 24 hours a day that makes the difference.

Maret Traber

What this and other studies like it are showing is that the protection we get from proper diet or supplements often comes from combinations of nutrients working together. This has implications not only for smokers but also for many other people.

Mike Trout

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.

Suzanne Somers

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.

Bill Rodgers

Let your running lead you to your diet.

Kim Shaw

Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice.

Oleg Vasiliev

She is doing better. She is not taking any more medications. She is still on a diet, but not such a strict diet as it used to be.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

A. S. Byatt

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

Robert Martinez

She can put a lot of pressure on herself and push herself too hard. I told her she needs to relax sometimes or she might be tired before the season starts. You have to hold her back sometimes.

Doreen Marchione

She has since remarried and she's volunteering for a domestic-violence shelter herself now.

Diane Abbott

She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself very worthy of this place in history and will serve as an inspiration for women the world over.

Ashley Tuiasosopo

She doesn't only make herself look good; she makes her teammates look good. It inspires a lot.

Brian Robertson

She is more and more like herself every day,

Pope John

She wants to test herself and she likes the challenge.

Tim Montgomery

She wants to go out and race to prove herself and that's going to be tough.

Leslie Howle

She was working on a new novel, and she always had herself on several things at once.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chester W. Nimitz

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Phil Nevin

Where is he? It's his first day, and he's already 20 minutes late. I hope someone is going to make him run laps.

Maria Bamford

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Gavin O'Connor

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Betty Wright

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Trey Parker

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

John Vane

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Andy Wachowski

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Billy Coleman

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Joey Fatone

Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

Jim Ratcliffe

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

Ron Walker

She is obviously distraught and is at an undisclosed location.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Grady Fuson

Show me that somebody that says winning is not a part of development, I'll show you a loser.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Charlie Brown

We still have a ways to go, but this says a lot about our kids.

Olivia Munn

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

Sharon Stone

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Wim Wenders

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Fred Ray

This says a lot for our offense. We can make plays. We just need to keep it going.

Scott Riggs

We want to come out of here with a solid run. I want to come out of here with a top 10. The team says a top 15, but that won't be satisfactory to me.

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

S. Hughes

Everyone wants to know, what's your secret? Nothing! No secrets. I'll tell you what's in my chili.

Sandra Brown

Even we have secrets here in Middleburg, Florida, even though we're on Wisteria Lane,

Chris Colfer

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

David Prowse

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

Mark Cuban

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Edith Wharton

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Audrey Hepburn

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Denis Waitley

SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

Denis Waitley

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Miller

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Charlie Chaplin

I have Many Problems in My Life. But my leaps don`t know that. They always smile

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Husnu Ozyegin

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Conor Oberst

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

America Ferrera

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

Rob Machado

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey.

Hilary Mantel

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Charles Spurgeon

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Charles Spurgeon

When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

Charles Spurgeon

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.