Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Will Rogers

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Cassandra Wright

When he found out, he had a broken heart. He gave up.

Charlotte Bronte

But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current...

Charlotte Bronte

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Jim Paulsen

The fact that oil broke close to US$60 today caused a drop in S&P 500 energy stocks.

Paul Saffo

The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.

Tony McCoy

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

Mary Landrieu

The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.

Carol Kane

My face is my career.

Carol Kane

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Carol Vorderman

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

Carlos Ghosn

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Carlos Ghosn

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Carlos Ghosn

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

C. S. Lewis

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

Carol Patterson

The parking garage is just a big bugaboo of mine.

Laurence J. Peter

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

Eric Carmen

We looked like a garage band. We didn't know if it was going to work out, so we rented a lot of the stuff.

Mark Roe

I got it (the putter) out of my garage and it was just like an old friend,

Demetrius Fannick

If they don't hit the garage door, they're going to be somewhere. They don't disappear.

Great Britain

We realized, rather than go to the next level of garage rock, there was a whole other world out there,

Brian Sweet

I've lived in my house for 13 years, I think we've had one garage sale the whole time.

Manny Ramirez

said Oakland manager Ken Macha. ''They're going to land over there in the same spot. I think there's a parking garage over there.

Jimmy Rollins

Not worried about next year right now. Worried about getting my garage cleaned.

Ralph Alvarez

We've seen limited reaction to the gas prices. We are much more of a necessity today than just an optional meal.

Robert Sinclair

There is a lot of gasoline infrastructure in New Jersey.

Elizabeth Castro

We did identify the leak, it was a gas main in the street, and we have done the repair. Nobody lost any gas service.

Ken Johnson

We're gonna have to start thinking about what we spend, because with the gas crunch, it's getting pretty painful on the pumps,

Brett Favre

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Jeff Bell

We've always planned on gasoline being over $65 a barrel,

Steve Carter

Since 9/11, we have been monitoring gas prices.

Charles Dickens

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Frank Darabont

Mission Impossible 3 was actually a total gas for me. It was really fun.

Colin Campbell

We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet. He was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.

Alain Prost

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Jim Tracy

The pitch was up and in. In that case, you just try to make sure the pitch hits more helmet than face.

Colin Campbell

We didn't feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet ... he was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.

Brandi Brown

We picked three-man so we could spray their helmets red, white and blue, for America.

Joseph Addai

We play with our helmets and you see it on the scoreboard.

Anne Larson

Her whole ride was about that helmet that day. That day, that helmet was her whole goal.

Jose Torres

He had his helmet on, but I don't know if it was strapped right. We all loved him, and we're going to miss him.

Salu Polamalu

He just put his helmet on and went back to work. No complaint, nothing. You don't see that from Troy.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Pat Burrell

Without Jimmy doing what he does, we're not where we are now. He's what makes us go. To not see that is pretty bad.

Will Chase

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

Leslie Hope

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

Quin Snyder

We lost track of Moody. If Jimmy doesn't do that, then we don't go into overtime.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Todd Bodine

Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Antony Sher

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Brian Eno

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

John Burnside

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tom Hodgkinson

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

Mario Testino

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.

Thomas Massie

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Brian Johnson

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Joseph Pusateri

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Megan Challender

My seat will be empty. I'm non-violently protesting.

Bill Scranton

We need to give the taxpayers a seat at the table in this state.

Jon Favreau

We're trying to find a seat on the bus.

Bob Hill

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Joseph Bologna

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

David Miliband

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

Howard Wolfson

If Mr. Spencer wants to know why Republicans keep trying to find alternatives to him, he should look in the mirror.

Lisa Graff

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

Joe Margulies

She's very scared, ... She doesn't want to be strapped down to that gurney all alone.

Ben Anderson

Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood.

Gregg Smith

If they are strapped to the wall, that is water.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.

Erma Bombeck

She's as funny as a toothache

Ellen Goodman

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.