Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

Charles Stuart Calverley

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

Al Purdy

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

Chris Bosh

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

David Sedaris

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

David Cross

I did one of the worst shows for that kind of thing in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is one of the most liberal spots on the planet. There were numerous people who walked out, somebody had thrown a beer, I had people yelling and screaming.

Dave Barry

Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.

Dave Barry

Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

Dave Barry

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

Dave Barry

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

David Talbot

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Michael Moriarty

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ken Jackson

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

Kevin McCarthy

We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95.

Colin Powell

We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Alan Bishop

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

David Pogue

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

Carl Sagan

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

Cathy Guisewite

Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.

Luc Montagnier

What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.

Paul Sanberg

The positive side is it allows people to get cell lines made for specific diseases, do it quickly and to do research on it.

Jeffrey Nelson

We're in a place where it's an important battleground for the hearts and minds of younger cell phone users.

Brigitte Boisselier

where it's legal to do the final step ... the human cell nucleus transfer.

Craig Venter

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

Charles Dickens

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

Charley Pride

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

Arnold Palmer

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

Deb Caletti

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Alan Tudyk

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Chesley Sullenberger

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Frederick Pollock

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Malik Peiris

One can narrow potential culprits and be prepared with vaccines.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Diane Setterfield

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

Jane Fonda

promulgate their right wing, narrow world view. It really doesn't have anything to do with me and it's kind of sick.

Catherine Deneuve

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

C. S. Lewis

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

Jon Brooks

We wanted to thank everyone who voted for Spice, and everyone's pet is a winner.

Demetri Martin

Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Connie Stevens

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

Charles Bukowski

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

David Sedaris

I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference is so profound it's, like, already September in Tokyo, and I figured nobody would be able to work it out.

David Mitchell

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

David Crystal

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

Dave Barry

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

Dave Barry

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

David Murphy

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

Byron Katie

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Alan Watts

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Justin Davis

We want to sort of put this out there that this is an institutional problem and not just one incident.

Chip Kidd

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

David Seabury

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

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.

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?

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.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Megan Challender

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

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.