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.

Alan Watts

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Alan Jackson

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Alan Jackson

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Al Pacino

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Humberto Moreira

We want them to get precise, objective information so they can pass it along to their other loved ones.

Thomas Schieffer

We want the Japanese-American alliance to be a global alliance that will contribute to the peace and stability of the international community, as it has contributed to the peace and stability of Asia.

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Jack Valenti

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

Bernhard Langer

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

Liu Bolin

Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.

Nyck Bernier

With the new system we can have better programming and a better fall semester. Rather than having to learn the job, the new executive director and assistant director will come in from their last year knowing how to do the job already. We wanted to keep our own system and modify and change it for the better.

Ralph Henning

We let two junior high assistants go by reduction in force (Nick Young and Kyle Thierry) because we don't exactly know what's going to happen there. It will be up to the new coach to decide how he wants to use the assistants.

Lori Montag

Like I said for the past 17 years there has always been an assistant to the clerks office.

Travie McCoy

I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.

Thomas Schlamme

I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials.

Leslie Alexander

When you're a GM ? or a personnel manager or assistant GM ? you're already in the basketball world. Which isn't the world of dealing, of business, of thinking how this fits with that. I wanted knowledge that went to another level. I wanted a statistical side other people don't have.

Paul Turner

When I was assistant coach of Harlequins, I came to Castres and got walloped, so I've seen what they are capable of,

Al Harrington

We've won our last three that way. We'll take 26 more like that as long we win. We never get discourage. We just play through our mistakes and that's the biggest difference.

Michael Strahan

I have the biggest sweet tooth! You name it, I will eat it. My all-time favorite is my mother's butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much. This makes my siblings mad because they think she favors me. I don't care because she probably does!

Brian France

The other thing is, I know how competitively hungry they are. They're not here just to be here. They're here to compete hard, showcase their products and support their teams. And they're going to do it on the biggest stage.

Michael Klein

The potential of the hybrid capital market is enormous. As issuers and investors become more comfortable with these securities, they could become one of the biggest corporate funding innovations since high yield bonds.

Francois Trahan

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

Don Briel

The perception of some of the elderly is that it's electronic, and (they) don't want to get near it, but quite frankly, it's easier to use than the paper ballots. My biggest concern is elderly people that are too fearful to even try.

Len Lauer

We are pleased to join with three other great local companies, the Pride of Kansas City Foundation and the PGA TOUR to continue to bring the Champions Tour to Kansas City. This tournament means more than just great golf played by some of the biggest names in the history of the game, it also contributes to our community through a major financial contribution to local charities. Kansas City has a great golf heritage and the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic continues that tradition.

Ray Yeakley

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

Dorothy Rothrock

We are at risk of losing some manufacturing, but the biggest risk is we won't get any expansion of current manufacturing. You're not solving the problem. You're just moving the greenhouse gases to another location.

Stephanie Jones

We're a small community. Everybody knows each other here. Everybody would love to see it put to rest. I think it will be good (for the Davis family) to have some kind of closure.

Bill Cobbs

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Paul Weller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders. I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders, ... I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Brad Coker

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Jake Delhomme

I'm all for it. Whoever we can get in there. But if it's still Stephen Davis or Steve Smith, that's fine with us, as long as we have one more point than the other team.

Tommy Haas

France will have to be reckoned with in Davis Cup. We weren't good enough today.

Joel Davis

The fact that this happened in Davis is what makes this a book, ... You'd be hard-pressed to go around Davis today and find kids this good as (John and Sabrina) were back then.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Erik Kimrey

We stress not giving up big plays on defense, so that was a little disappointing. But I was glad to see the way we responded as a team after that score gave us a little reality check.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Deidre Hall

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Charles Caleb Colton

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Al Sharpton

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Akshay Kumar

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

Chris Bauer

I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. Those days have passed me by, but I would do it. If it meant that I was in a scene naked with a woman, or anybody romantic, I'd be into it.

Chip Kelly

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Dave Franco

I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

Dave Franco

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

Dave Chappelle

I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Tracy Egeland

We're in a playoff race. There's no time to put your head down and pout. We've got to get ready to get back at it (today).

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Nick Woodman

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.