Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Charles Dudley Warner

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Charles de Gaulle

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Charles de Lint

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Charles de Lint

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Charles de Lint

I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Charles de Lint

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

Diana Vreeland

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring...

Abhishek Bachchan

I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

Andy Roddick

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Ice Cube

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

Nancy Astor

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

Rick Riordan

It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! “Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!

Q'orianka Kilcher

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

Dave Barry

Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

David Larsen

Maybe now I'll be able to have a couple of extra cookies or ice cream after dinner without feeling so guilty. Or, without my wife yelling at me.

Bill Cosby

Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won't get any here either.

Paul Henderson

God wants your soul for all eternity. All Santa requires is cookies and milk... One night out of the year. Santa Claus... What a guy!

Elliot Regenstein

But what you can't do is be selling kids cookies at 10 o'clock in the morning so that they're not hungry at lunch.

Charles M. Schulz

Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!

Lilla Crawford

At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.

Rod Brobeck

We?re not there yet. But ... what kind of cookies do you like, and are you willing to pay $10 a dozen for them?