Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Peggy Brown

We want them to learn simple things that are relaxing, like conscious breathing and guided imagery, which are antidotes to anxiety.

Cathy Freeman

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Caitlin Hyduke

We started to get a little nervous, because we knew the whole season was on the line. So we took a deep breath and stuck with it. We never let it get to us and just kept playing tough defense.

Mark Capasso

We stuck to the basics. They have really good chemistry on the court and were able to put together a great run and get a little breathing room.

L. Frank Baum

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Edith Wharton

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Dean Cain

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

David Brock

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

Pope XVI

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

Jack Randorff

We've all seen games when they make play-by-play calls and you can actually hear the call two or three times, due to echoes in the space. That's the sort of thing you don't want here, because that interferes with what we want in terms of good, clean speech intelligibility.

Richard Friend

We started getting calls from all over town that (Wheatley) was driving at over 100 mph, ... He passed the mayor (Larance Davis) near Davis Elementary School and the mayor said he was going well over 100.

Orrin Hatch

Where they make phone calls and whether the president raises money or not is one thing. The way they've done it seems to be unethical, illegal, (and) in poor taste, ... Were foreign influences trying to influence the election?

Martin Van Buren

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Luke Mitchell

I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

Jermaine Wallace

Watching TV, all day and all night, it's unbelievable. I've been getting phone calls from everybody. It's been a blessing. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it.

Ken Dulaney

We're getting tons of calls on this. Customers are disappointed that RIM is putting this legal case before them.

Pat Robertson

We're getting tons of calls from people not quite knowing what to do,

John Galliano

The perfume is sweet, like the girl, and is young and a fresh reinvention of Miss Dior.

Bertolt Brecht

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Terri Cash

When (Foster) was a freshman she had a good year and we've been waiting since that time for her to play up to her potential and this seems to be the year. She's taken on a leadership role with our team. It wasn't quite expected, but she's stepped into the role.

Jim Calhoun

When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

Brad Childress

We've always spread it around. All the guys give you a little something different. And I think fresh legs are important.

Desarae Garland

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

Robby Wine

We're going to solidify a lineup. There was a lot of things that went on last weekend. We just wanted to see what guys were made of. We realized that some of the freshmen weren't quite ready yet, and I think in the same aspect, we have some older guys that maybe started wondering where they stand with the team.

Mitch Metcalf

We're going to play around with keeping the show fresh and creative, but the game is going to stay the same and real people who have interesting stories are going to be at the core.

Keke Palmer

I really look up to Will Smith. He's internationally known, and people know him from everything. I don't know any kid who hasn't seen and liked Fresh Prince, or you'll like one of his movies or his music. He's perfect, and he's done everything. That's my dream: to be internationally known.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Jim Rash

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.

Carol Carter

Working keeps us young. We don't want to be the type of people to retire and sit around and do nothing.

Leon Panetta

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Dan Porter

The polycarbonate keeps (broken glass) from spraying into your face.

Joel Madden

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

Michael Groves

When he keeps his shoulder down, he has a lot of pop. It's a matter of him remaining patient.

Eric Smith

Sir D is getting better and better each week. If he keeps improving, we should be good.

Mel Thomas

She keeps us busy. She doesn't want us sitting around getting sluggish.

Dave Laird

Mitchell just keeps getting better and better and better. Two months ago that kid would've pinned him.

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.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Camille Paglia

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

Catherine Tate

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Bill Johnson

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Tenzin Gyatso

When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.

Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Anna Netrebko

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Rusty Agte

Much as I'd like to, you can't pretend this is not a big deal.

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Traci Bingham

He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.