Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Alain Robert

When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

Marilyn Goode

We want them to build next to the existing hospital. People who are are able to walk can walk to it and it's already got all the roads and the infrastructure that would have to be built at the new location.

Bob Castellini

We want to try to build the franchise around Adam, Homer, Edwin and a couple of other guys.

Ken Livingstone

We want to try and build very strong links between London and Beijing.

David Sedaris

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

Lucas Till

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

Mark Parrish

The only difference between tonight's game and last night's game is that 40 guys were a little more tired tonight, and the building was different, ... All I know is that if we play 82 games like this, I'm going to die.

Michael Miles

The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.

Sen. Sakamoto

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

Victor Shum

The potential supply disruption risk premium has already been built into the price and because there really is no immediate threat to supply ... prices are correcting downwards.

Mike Parks

The people who built this course for us were shocked by the prices we are going to charge. They said on the East Coast a course like this would cost between $10 and $15 per round.

Phyllis Berry

We are pretty much built out; our major highways are at capacity. But it's not all about roads. The lesson is a hard one to learn. We didn't learn lessons from Miami. You need to plan for it now. Learn those lessons early.

Robin Murphy

We've all kind of built the department together and they are such a talented group. It is going to be hard for this group of kids to be done because they have been going non-stop for three years.

Chris Kennedy

We stress that Congressman Weller's relationships with various Indian tribes has been longstanding, built out of strong mutual support for a number of common causes.

M. Wolfe

We stopped doing that about six episodes in -- even though we'd built nice big sets -- because it just stopped the storytelling cold.

John Sidgmore

We started as a commercial entity; we built the business by competition.

Jim Rogers

Wayne is the county that was built through the tremendous growth of business and manufacturing for a century, and now that's declined so the jobs have declined. People came here for jobs. They're leaving for jobs. It's as simple as that.

Li Zhaoxing

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Charles Dickens

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

Charles Caleb Colton

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

Alan Watts

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

David LaChapelle

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

Buddy Hackett

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Michael Connelly

When you surf, the ultimate goal is to get into a pipeline where the water circles around you and that's all there is. In writing, it's the same thing. You want to get into this pipeline where the story is circling around you and that's all there is. That is writing nirvana to me.

Aimee Bender

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

Bill Parcells

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

Eddie Irvine

NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I had a show at George Krevsky Gallery this past spring. That show traveled to Woodstock, New York where it showed for six weeks.

H. Hart

When he painted, he kept paintings which were significant to him. In all these years he's had a gallery ... he's never exhibited (private works).

Lucy Silliman

There has never been a gallery here for me to show my work. I show all over the country, and I've never had the privilege of showing in a gallery here.

Kathy Emerson

People are intimidated by galleries, ... Being interactive with the gallery is a very important thing.

Paul Mellon

It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Howard Hodgkin

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Richard Prince

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

Richard Boucher

We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking.

Rory Bremner

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Masaaki Higashida

Signs that the U.S. stock scene is improving really helps lift spirits at home.

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Dee Brown

When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

H. Hart

We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Billy Collins

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

Mike Hill

I think it went really well. The word is slowly spreading. We're starting to get more people.

Dawn Staley

This team is the most undisciplined team that we've had. They're just really undisciplined. They're not a team. This is the first team that's not a team, so we're going to get to the problem. We'll slowly but surely get to it, but we'll get to it.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Chloe Sevigny

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.