Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Bootsy Collins

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Kevin Cook

Many layers and things take time to trickle down,

Walter Kirn

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

Alain de Botton

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Elie Saab

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

Ian Mcewan

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

Lorraine Bracco

I think it's so original. I think there are so many layers to it that people are really enjoying.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Tom Petty

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Dick Cavett

Well, it saved her a lot of muddy shoes,

Scott Neal

A lot of our new players struggled because of the conditions. They?re not used to playing in wet and muddy conditions, so it took them a little time to adjust.

Dick DeGuerin

This is a rabbit trail (Earle) is going down. There is nothing there, but he is trying to do what he can to muddy the waters.

Andy Goldsworthy

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

Rob Morosi

We're preparing to shift traffic from eastbound M-14 to the westbound lanes so we can rebuild the eastbound side, but there are problems with the pavement that have to be addressed first.

Jeremy Piven

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Leon Trotsky

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

Moira Kelly

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

Terry Pratchett

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Betty Wright

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Sam Cowart

When you take thorough beatings on the road twice, that's a concern.

Denise Juneau

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

Brian Hill

We've always said there's something better down the road waiting for you. It wasn't the right time or the right place.

Mike Koepp

We're going to have to be road warriors from here on out.

John Adams

Since the road has been changed, that's just let everything come off the park.

Bob McKenzie

There are a lot of considerations, especially on a road that is as traveled as I-15.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Tom Tupa

She's doing great, ... She's completely done with all her treatments, and she's on the road to recovery.

Brad Paisley

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

Mike Sanderson

It is a very windy, wet and wild part of the world.

Sandra Williams

It was so wet that we laughed. And that's what we've been doing ever since: laughing.

Harry Stockman

It will be wet off and on through Wednesday.

Harry Stockman

It's going to be wet off and on.

Seamus Heaney

The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.