Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Kathleen Bergen

We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Charles Caleb Colton

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Alan Alda

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Catherine Booth

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Caitlin Moran

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Joel Klein

We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall.

Shai Agassi

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

Keith Dory

We started it last year as a one-time shot on a Saturday. And on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we kept getting calls asking us if we were going to do it again.

Joe Hills

We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.

Kennie Sims

We are looking for the next Paula Creamer of the Bay Area.

Robert Boone

We wanted very specifically to meet the needs of the people of Bay Saint Louis, not what we thought they might need.

Tom Albertrani

We've always felt he would be a better horse around two turns, and he trained better going into the Tampa Bay Derby than he did the Sam Davis.

Gene Cofiell

We're starting at the Bay Bridge and will be airing travel advisories on the radio.

Julie Brough

We're stalled. When you see oil prices back up to their high, you've seen gold hovering around $600 US, people are making some really good money and I think there's a lot of people who are just taking the opportunity to crystallize some gains which is keeping the market at bay a little bit right now.

Gerald Goodman

With the new scheduling ... Tampa Bay is a big winner, absolutely. Was there a happy medium? Yes and no. We would have gotten a fall date (had there not been a move to the spring). There would have been PGA Tour golf here. But not at the level it's going to be now.

Spike Dykes

Making Horseshoe Bay into a city isn't going to get that water cooler fixed (at the golf course). People complain 'They fired the tennis pro' or 'They fired the golf pro.' Well, the Dallas Cowboys fired Tom Landry.

Shia LaBeouf

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

Kim Coble

What we came to realize is the best way to protect the Bay is to keep a farmer farming. We'd much rather have a farm operating than having a suburban development go in.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Josh McDowell

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

Craig Ferguson

Some people watching CNN were so shocked they started rioting. No, I'm kidding. No one watches CNN.

Brit Hume

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.

Brit Hume

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

Anthony Weiner

Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.

Fareed Zakaria

The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.

Stephen Toulouse

We're literally in a meeting going over our plans, keeping track of things, when we got word on Tuesday that CNN was reporting they had been hit. At the time, we knew a high-profile target was reporting they had been hit and they didn't know what it was. Their computers were shutting down and restarting,

Ed Adler

There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.

Ed Adler

There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale, ... These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Steve Stinson

Whether they are talented or not they know what has been done before and they expect to win. These guys find a way to win. Part of that is the tradition of Flower Mound. They are going to do what it takes to make sure they are not the ones to drop the ball.

Guillermo Cole

We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

George Machado

When we dropped to 2-4, we knew we needed to win our last three games to qualify. We won the first one last week. But this week we're playing a better team, so we have to play even better.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

David Kim

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,