Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charlie Munger

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Larry Gregory

We've always had our casinos on barges. They've always had to be over water. Due to the hurricane, there was a lot of interest to move our casinos on land.

Ed Feigenbaum

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

Alberto Lopez

We reached out to other casinos on the Strip, but everyone was filled. Our main effort was to make our guests as comfortable as they could be until the situation was resolved.

James Navolio

Full casinos are tourist destinations. They're not just casinos. They're shows, they're shopping, and dining.

Nick Hays

If all the ducks are lined in a row, these casinos can open the doors as soon as the conditional license is received.

Cathy Burke

We have to be competitive to stay alive. The casinos can give food, rooms and drinks away, but we can't. Now, you can only smoke at the casinos ? this is going to be devastating to business.

Charles Sullivan

If the casinos don't re-prime the pump, then the pump's not going to get re-primed. There is nothing else down here that could do it.

Gabe Kaplan

Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan J. Pakula

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alain Prost

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Al Michaels

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Ries

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

Al Ries

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.