Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

J. J. Johnson

Where the heck have you been all year?

W. S. Gilbert

Watching film, (the problems) weren't anything major. It was just little missed assignments. We weren't releasing to the linebacker quick enough. We weren't moving our feet. We ran too wide. We had a multitude of little things that we've worked like heck this week to correct.

Charles Hayward

We're going to put on one heck of a show,

James Byrd

(We) were supposed to go hunting the morning he got killed. He was a heck of a hunter, a heck of a fisherman.

Billy Connolly

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

Demetri Martin

Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.

Tim DeBruycker

She's a heck of an athlete. We have to have diversified scoring where we get some other people some points.

Kathy Smelstor

She pitched a heck of a game. Kristen is throwing very well right now.

Andy Leggio

She ran a heck of a race. I though she could outrun those horses. I didn't know about the mud.

Naohiro Niimura

Traders are not in hurry to buy, as we seem to have sufficient supplies plus mild weather.

Aaron Mattox

We played well for three quarters and just got in a hurry there in the fourth. We made some mistakes but regrouped down the stretch.

Sally Schneider

There are a wealth of flavorings you can put in a salt, and if you're in a hurry that's your seasoning. That's all you have to do.

Rafael Benitez

I am in no hurry to sell the player,

Roxanne Rogers

We urge people interested in this raffle to hurry and purchase their tickets.

Dallas Willard

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Joel Zumaya

I got up (to throw) and they told me to start hurrying up. It's kind of weird, but, hey, I got warmed up real quick. It's just all about being relaxed and doing your work out there.

Paul Little

We're not in a hurry to do anything. We're going to pretty much leave it as is for now.

Paul Petty

We're not in a big hurry right now.