Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Charles Caleb Colton

The smiling daughter of the storm.

Charles Dickens

It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

Charles Stuart Calverley

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

Alan Moore

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter… Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold… that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.

Alan Jay Lerner

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

Alan Jackson

After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.

Alan Bradley

It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

Charles Dickens

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

Alan Rickman

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

Chief Joseph

I will speak with a straight tongue.

William Shakespeare

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

William Shakespeare

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

William Shakespeare

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

Audre Lorde

Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

Alan Watts

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

David Mitchell

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Crystal

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

David Crystal

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Caitlin Thomas

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.