Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Kate Delhagen

The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.

Greg Turner

We've already noticed that people are starting to correct their behaviors.

Matthew Barnaby

We spotted them a two-goal lead, ... To win in this league, you've got to play for 60 minutes. We've got to find a way to correct that.

Gretchen Rubin

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Michael Graves

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Tony Russa

We have to get (Juan) going. I think (hitting coach) Hal (McRae) sees the correction that he needs to make.

Natasha Trethewey

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

Mike Nolan

We don't have any excuses. We didn't play very well. We'll correct our mistakes. We'll learn from them.

Marcus Ginyard

Watching with buddies, you're talking about look at that dunk, look at that 3. You sit down with a coach, and he's talking about look at this defensive mistake that team made and how to correct it. So you're getting a totally different look from him.

Charles Sturt

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Cheryl James

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

John Gagliano

We're so proud of him. He's been a great leader and a great example for the other kids to follow. It's great for the program.

Atom Egoyan

When we first shot it, something very, very weird happened, and it's a good example of how things work intuitively or are improvised.

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Tim Barrett

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Rep. Lawlor

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Jan Johnson

We have minimum wage laws. Do we need more social engineering? ... I say no.

Thomas Sugrue

The $5 minimum wage was a moment of real innovation.

Ray Williams

We'll be out of power, they said, minimum a month,

David Byrne

We can say we're trying to reduce the risk to the minimum but there is no such thing as risk-free,

Connie Miller

Probably daily. The minimum would be every two or three days.

John Whiting

We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

The Talmud

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

John Banks

Throughout our lives, we were in the system. Our parents weren't stable enough.

Joyce Haldeman

The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues.

Ronda Reid

We're able to make more successful connections between student sitters and parents.

David Bell

We're a product of our parents, whether we like it or not.

Pete Carroll

We're always worried that the parents are going to be shocked.

Kristen Staab

Yes, she was treated differently. She was treated better by my parents than she's been treated her whole life.

Michael Williams

There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it?

John Manion

We're going to ride (the running game) as long as we can.

Jay Gibbons

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.

John Kinsey

We've seen that kind of roller-coaster ride before, and this is just another one of these.

Jim Bryant

She wants to ride the vehicles to make sure they're right.

Jim Clyburn

we're not going to let it ride this time.

Simeon Rice

We're just going to ride this ship, ride this wave. We accomplished one mission, we'll be setting out for many more.

Forrest Miller

We'd like to have him christen it, and have him take the first ride in it.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

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.

Denis Leary

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Aaron Tveit

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Geisha Williams

We're in the tough stage of the restoration.

Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.