Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Alexander

We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game.

Ellen Miller

Let us know what earmarks, for example, your members of Congress are bragging about, tell us about them, and together we'll track down what they're really all about.

Sarah Steele

I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, 'Oh! That's what I'm supposed to be doing!'

Brad Pitt

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

B. C. Forbes

Bragging often precedes begging.

Dizzy Dean

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

James Altucher

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

Kevin Hall

We are hopeful, and a lot can change in two years. The company certainly hasn't been shy about bragging about the work force there and the efficiencies the plant has achieved.

George Burger

No points were awarded. But bragging rights were established.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David R. Ellis

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Catherine the Great

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Carol Jordan

There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

Lorraine Toussaint

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Tim Palmer

We've always been deep on the bench, ... and it just proves that we can play with any team.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep

Bill Bray

When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-trailers with graffiti on them. Welcome to New Brunswick.

Nicola Formichetti

It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

Herbert A. Simon

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

Ben Jonson

I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Richard Carmona

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Anna Held

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Barbara Corcoran

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Luis Suarez

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Joanna Lumley

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Frank Beamer

He may. I think he does some things that tells you he can be in that running.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.