Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Norm MacDonald

I miss seeing real comics, Shecky Greene and Buddy Hackett, those types. I like straight stand-up, talking about the Olympics and why I feel obligated to watch them. 'Why am I watching archery at 4 in the afternoon?'

Paulo Coelho

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Bobby Harper

Just like every golf course has a 'pro,' every gun and archery has a 'pro,' they can help you find what you need.

Rose Leslie

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

David Dow

There is something going on constantly. Our season starts on Sept. 1 with upland game and dove hunting. Then, on the first of October, the archery deer season begins, which runs through middle of November. After that, we still have the upland game season going until the end of April. So, some days get pretty busy.

Pavlos Flourentzos

Ulysses known for his archery skills is taking on a whole army emerging from the gates of Troy on horseback and in chariots.

Larry Brown

Over the years, as I traveled throughout the archery circuit, I saw there weren't high numbers of black or Hispanic participants. I decided to make a difference, to bring this sport to our neighborhoods.

Geena Davis

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Geena Davis

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Dolly Parton

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Charlyne Yi

Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.

John Mayer

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

Ray Bradbury

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice,...

Susan Hill

It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.