Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

Max Bukovac

We're going to produce some runs, and I would be surprised if we didn't.

Jim Thomas

With nanotechnology, you can produce steel that's 100 times stronger but six times lighter.

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

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.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.