Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.

Charles Dickens

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...

Charles Spurgeon

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

David Tennant

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

Catherynne M. Valente

We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.

Caryl Churchill

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Casey Stengel

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

Carl Honore

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

Alfred North Whitehead

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Imelda Marcos

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

William Shenstone

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Willa Cather

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Sallust

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

Bo Burnham

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Aesop

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Helena Bonham Carter

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

George Santayana

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Francis Bacon

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Gregory Keyes

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

George Herbert

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Quintus Ennius

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.