Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Paul Phillips

There are cases where new evidence causes doubt, but this is not one of them.

Rocco Buttiglione

There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured,

John Mogg

Where the report has found evidence of market abuse, we welcome the Commission's commitment to pursue such cases urgently and vigorously.

Mark Kennedy

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

S. Hughes

We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.

Kendrick Meek

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

Jennifer Pizer

What makes it discriminatory is that it requires women to present themselves in a particularly feminine way.

Antonio Gates

When I'm in a game, something might be hurting, like a finger, and this sounds so feminine to come to a trainer and be like, 'You know, my fingernail hurts,'

Kevin McDonald

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Charlotte Rampling

My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.

Charlotte Bronte

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Angela Merkel

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman as in the past few months. ... In return, I have publicly recognized my feminine identity to an unusual measure.

Lenny Kravitz

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

Tracy McMillan

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

Vickie Warehime

We have no indication that anybody's been harmed.

Bob Burke

What they're saying is there's no indication at all of mechanical failure.

Bill Bixby

So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Guardia had an invitation to the White House. He went to the (presidential) inauguration. Every indication was that he was a reputable, upstanding person.

Pamala Vazquez

We take this very seriously. We have every indication the county's taking it very seriously as well.

Diana Ross

He is in a stable condition, which is an indication that he is recovering well.

Larry Robinson

He's done that before. The first indication was that he was through for the game. We made our line switches but the next thing you know, there he was.

Tommy Hutton

Roger Clemens showed up at the funeral. That's an indication of how much people respected him.

Eugene Fama

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

Charlie Chaplin

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

Charlie Chaplin

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

Charles Dickens

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Charles Dickens

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

Charles Dickens

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Charles Dickens

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

Charles Dickens

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

Charles Dickens

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...

Ovid

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Candie McAlpine

She screamed all the way up and I screamed all the way down.

Keith Miller

I was confident. I just screamed back then - I threw myself into it.

David Pollack

He wasn't screaming and yelling at me and cussing me. We were trying to get it solved. That's all we were doing.

Billy Martin

He was spit on; he was beaten; he was screamed and hollered at.

Joseph Jackson

He was screaming in agony, and there was nothing we could do.

George Romero

I didn't like Scream too much. I thought Scream 2 was better.

Charlie Munger

If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.

Kathy Najimy

I got to scream 'vagina' at the top of my lungs.

Felix Silla

Now there's a lot of yelling and screaming and hollering.

Jay Pharoah

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

Ike Turner

I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.

Mary-Kate Olsen

A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that’s all they know about anything.

Plato

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Torii Hunter

I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.

Witold Gombrowicz

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.