Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

David Suzuki

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

Camilla Belle

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

Heidi Klum

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

John Reid

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

Bill Parcells

By and large, I've been healthy all my life.

Edith Stein

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Beau Mirchoff

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust

Bear Grylls

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

Jerry Conway

We're going to find seals in places they're not normally at, and where people are.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Debra Pegram

We didn't press as much as we normally do. We wanted to look at some other things we can do out of a half-court offensive set.

George Goncalves

Traders normally try to use the supply story to push rates higher.

Mitch Albom

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Ron Nesper

We had some looks. We normally don't run something for a specific player and most of the time it wasn't necessary.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Khloe Kardashian

I normally like to do a lip pencil and then fill it in with the same pencil because it stays on all day, and you don't have to reapply it.

Timothy Johnson

We used the space that would normally not be used.

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.

Bob Woods

We've never done anything quite like this before.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

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.

Gary Carter

We're 20 years older, so it's not quite going to be the same.

Alan Watts

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

Alan Grayson

Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.

Alan Grayson

Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

Al Madrigal

Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

Chris Christie

If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward.

Darren Shan

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

David Miliband

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick

Dave Barry

It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick

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 Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.