Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

David H. Murdock

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

David Suzuki

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Buffalo Bill

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Carole King

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Bryan Davis

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Bryan Procter

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

Catherynne M. Valente

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

Will Sheridan

When you think about it, it's natural to double our guards because they are amazing. They are the dominant force of our offense. But when I have the open shot I take it.

Dave Kang

While maintaining its status as the dominant supplier of premium fiber and cable, Corning has emerged as one of the premier players in the red-hot optical networking space.

Matt Brown

We felt like Barrett Moore was a dominant blocker and we have a lot of respect for him,

Larry Fitzgerald

I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

Eric Kandel

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

Marc Walters

She has been our most dominant player. She's made herself into a marquee performer.

Dianne Lewis

We have to play strong on the boards. Neither team is very tall. Nobody has a big dominant post player inside. All the small things are going to count.

Jake Herlihy

She was everything as advertised. She's a dominant player, very strong and physical.

Joan Chen

To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment.

Adam Allen

We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.

Chita Rivera

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

David Mitchell

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

Carl Lewis

I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

Josh Brown

We've all put so much time in, and it's what we deserve. It's an unbelievable feeling. It feels great.

Geoff Blum

We've all played this game and had our hearts broken. I can only imagine what it feels like at this level.

Darrin Zeer

We're in a mode where it feels like there's no free time, but there really is. To live a good life is not about going to a meditation retreat one weekend a year. It's about moment by moment, every day. You've got to train yourself, train yourself to be calm.

Rick Anderson

Where I would have thought this was 30-70 or 40-60 a few weeks ago, my guess is it feels more like 50-50 now, which is not just a number but a trend line.

Edgar Degas

C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

China Chow

I'm so private and I don't know why!

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

David Murphy

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

Byron Katie

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

Jane Austen

Know your own happiness.

Scott Ishikawa

When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.

Bill Joy

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

David Strathairn

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

David Prowse

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Blanka Vlasic

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.

August Wilson

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Dick Dale

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Dick Cavett

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Edward Lear

Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?

Bertrand Russell

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

Katarina Witt

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

Jeff Buttle

I don't think it will be enough. And that's fine. I'm skating better now.

Debi Thomas

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

Priscilla Hill

He has no idea what his skating does to people.

Michael Peca

Our success comes with skating and being aggressive.

Kurt Browning

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

Oksana Baiul

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

Oksana Baiul

I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

Eric Heiden

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.