Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles de Lint

The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.

Charles Dickens

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Mike Quarto

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

Ronald Kessler

Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Bryan Ferry

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Brittany Rogers

We know what it felt like to lose up here. We didn't want that to happen again.

Kelsey Cermak

We know how it felt to go home after one game last year. We didn't want to go through that again.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Chuck Ramsey

What he can do is something we really need. Now that he's healthy, we're getting what we hoped to be getting all season.

Brad Stephens

Short-term traders are disappointed after they'd hoped for a large upward revision.

Jeremy Williams

We really hoped we ... could keep (Mattox) from getting 30 or 40 on us, honestly, and maybe try to shut down some of their other players.

Clay Ogden

I was kind of joking and I actually said that I hoped I play her. And here we go.

Jack Rio

He's been what we hoped for as a pass rusher,

Sue Semrau

I think it's the place that we always hoped that it would be with the solid foundation, fundamentals, mind-set and work ethic.

Lindsay Crocker

He'll have an MRI scan this weekend, and we can take it from there. Shane hasn't made the progress we'd hoped for, so it is better if he doesn't play in the first test.

Jennifer Shoaf

That we won with our defense, that's no surprise. North has better shooters than we do. We just hoped we could score enough to stay in the game, then win it with defense.

Carmelo Anthony

We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure.

E. O. Wilson

We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure.

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Neve McIntosh

I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

Christine Baranski

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

Charlie Lane

We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Virender Sehwag

We've won the series, but it doesn't mean we'll take the remaining three matches lightly.

Mark Johnson

Whenever you win two Big Ten matches on the road, no matter who it is you're up against, you have to feel pretty good.

Sal Imbimbo

We have had some tough matches this year, but (the sectional tournament) is what it's all about. That's what everyone is pointing toward and trying to step up a notch with that in mind.

Nadia Petrova

She had me running around so much. She was playing so well out there. We always seem to have matches like these.

Mary Christensen

Six matches in one week ... that's a lot. We are so tired. I'm exhausted.

Song Zhenhua

If a scent sent to us matches with any sample from our bank, then we have a clue.

Joel Meisenheimer

I think a lot of them have played the back nine before, but it's not one we normally play as a team. This is one of the first matches where we've had our top six together.

Kristin Mulhall

We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.

Bob Baffert

Sinister Minister, you can't control. He just runs off. . . . He's a runaway train.

Pat Smith

We've done test runs on and off for two years now. When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.

Pat Smith

We've done test runs on and off for two years now, ... When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.

Tony Gerharz

We have to be better than that. There are going to be a lot of runs scored at Sunset Park. Kimberly did the runs scoring.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Al Horford

Who runs the apartment? They'd probably say I do. I'll say Jo does too, but it's my show.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Neil Morris

That would be a dream. Every time we get him to the races, he runs a big race.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Peter Wright

Lennart is getting better. This tournament is part of his recovery.

Jared Esala

I think the tournament MVP is going to come out of that bracket.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.