Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Jill Lepore

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

Dianna Agron

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

David Sedaris

I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.

Dave Barry

I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

Dave Barry

So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!

William Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Billy Joel

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Plaxico Burress

The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Kenny Perry

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Marcello Canuto

Site Q was proposed to be in one place, then in another place. There were all these candidates, but none of them really panned out.

Don Brash

She is talking some of the talk, but walking none of the walk.

Claude Allen

Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Andrew Adamson

I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.

Nick Licata

Whatever Peter wants, I am with him. He understands the complexities and subtleties of planning.

Ken Hitchcock

Whatever Peter decides, he'll have our support. He's not going to play if he's not 100 percent.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Dave Walker

Peter is not recovering from (plantar fasciitis), and we need him because hes our No. 1 runner,

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Nancy Cartwright

Everyone is tired of that Richard Gere story

Nikki Sixx

They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

William Wordsworth

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense.

Hannah More

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Claire Tomalin

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Richard Madden

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Edward Norton

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Michael Bias

I didn't want them to be concerts. I wanted them to have a theatrical arc.

Neil Tennant

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

David Hewson

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.

Liza Minnelli

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

Virginia Madsen

It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.