Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.

Charles de Lint

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Charles de Lint

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

Charles de Lint

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

Charles de Lint

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charlie Chaplin

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

Charlie Chaplin

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Charles Dudley Warner

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dickens

Friendship? Yes Please.

Charles Dickens

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Charles Dickens

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Billy Bob Thornton

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

Elbert Hubbard

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Jack Beven

Should we get another out-of-season storm, we will use the 2006 named list.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Ron Gardenhire

That was kind of ugly. That's a little disappointing. Like I told you, that's why we haven't named our staff yet, because you never know what's going to happen.

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Andy Williams

I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Wendy Squires

We are named one of the Top 10 tourist trains in the country.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Dennis Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Jim Messina

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Alison Krauss

It sounded like a drag...so we recorded it.

Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

Glenn Hughes

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Jim Ed Brown

When I started in '54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn't have recording studios much around the country; we went into the radio stations and recorded our records.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cooper

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.