Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Archie Shepp

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Bill Gates

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Bill Joy

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

Bill Joy

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

Elin Hilderbrand

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Arthur Rimbaud

I could never throw Love out of the window.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Douglas Adams

One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.

Simon Schama

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.

Ronald Frame

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

George Saintsbury

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

Goldwin Smith

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Claire Tomalin

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Dazzy Vance

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

Randy Lambert

Bo just shot the dickens out of it.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Jason Kubel

When I'm in the game I don't even notice it. Of course, there is the usual ache that has come from the injury, but nothing different from how it has felt all along.

Matthew Caws

When it was released, it felt like rebirth. What was fun was that no one was paying attention. It made it like recording the first record.

Justin Peelle

When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He had to get rid of the ball.

Bob Curran

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.