Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Lon Carter

West is a heck of a club. They've got very good flat track speed.

Elton Brand

We still need to prove that we're still a top-notch organization. We're going towards that road. I don't have PlayStation in my locker, flat screens or DVD's in my locker.

Elton Brand

We still need to prove that we're still a top-notch organization, ... We're going towards that road. I don't have PlayStation in my locker, flat screens or DVD's in my locker.

Lydia Leonard

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Kelly Anderson

She's probably improved the most. She's also probably our hardest worker. I thought that made her a lot better.

Pat Casey

She's one of the hardest hitters we have.

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got a sense of urgency because we're in a situation where we need to get wins on the road. We need to play well.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Hassan Bazzaz

We are all going to be surprised. This situation is so complicated.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Brian Gionta

We know we need to start scoring. We just have to stick with it. We know we're doing the right things.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Maurice Strong

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Mark Hendrickson

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

Byron Katie

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

Eliza Haywood

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Baltasar Gracian

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Bernard Kouchner

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

Agnetha Faltskog

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Bill Gates

Learn from your unhappy customers.

Bob Seger

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

C. S. Lewis

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Blaise Pascal

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.