Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Darren Shan

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

Byron Katie

There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.

Barbara Mikulski

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Larry Hollingworth

This weather is the nightmare we were expecting. People are now at their most vulnerable.

Alain de Botton

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Tom Russell

It can be a real nightmare for people. It's a minefield out there. A lot of what's sold today is plain junk.

Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare

Ken Crump

Marist was a nightmare (last year). We wanted Marist (again), but you play who you have to.

Brent Spiner

Well, I think there are other shows where it's a nightmare every day to come to work.

Brian Eno

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Dhani Harrison

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Janet Jackson

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

China Chow

I used to be more glamorous.

Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Brian Molko

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

Brett Favre

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Bernard Ebbers

I used practically all the money I had available.