Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Michael Steele

My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

Jim Calhoun

The only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the standings is the young kids. Providence is talented but they're young. Young teams make mistakes.

Paul Woods

The potential is there and with a bit of luck we could finish in the top four. There are two or three programs that are traditionally strong and the final one or two spots are usually up for grabs.

Mark Zandi

The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher.

Pat Sullivan

The people who were here tonight now have an idea of the talent you see at the NAIA National Tournament. This team is every bit as talented as what you see at the nationals. In fact, if this had been 20 years ago when the NAIA had 600 teams, this team could have won it.

Winifred Creamer

The people who built the first of these structures had no model to go by, no precedent to use in building a monument. It's a bit like deciding to build a functioning spaceship in your back yard, and succeeding.

Mike Hathaway

We've always been a little bit wide open anyway, but with Chris out, it kind of forced us to throw more.

Robbie Guertin

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Ato Boldon

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.

David Booker

We knew they were going to sag on me, so coach (Brain) Brooks told our guards to hit some shots.

Mark Twain

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style

Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Kevin Rose

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

Wendie Malick

She (Nina) really is the queen of non sequiturs ... There are a lot of missing links in this woman's brain,

George Leonard

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Saxby Chambliss

We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come.

Niki Tsongas

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.

Bob Lambert

When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.

Guy Gavriel Kay

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.

Amado Guevara

Whether they had the new players or not, they're still a team we're not familiar with. They're a complex team and even though they haven't won many games this year they still have some good qualities, especially with the new players they've added.

Richard Kramer

What this document gives us is rare insight into the imponderable process of decision-making by which this most complex of quartet movements is made over into a work for piano four-hands.

Mark Luscombe

What's really complex about it is you're going to have to do allocations you've never had to do before.

Darren Irby

Working with celebrities has become, over the last decade, a lot more complex with so many more nonprofits engaging with celebrities.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Travie McCoy

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

Laura Marano

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Clyde Tombaugh

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

Cecilia Bartoli

When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Chino Moreno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Howard Pickard

There are other John Deere clubs. But they didn't want other colors. So we started something everyone can join.

Ken Duberstein

There are only two United States senators who have a truly national constituency. One's name is Ted Kennedy and one's name is John McCain,

Johnny Vegas

People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

Paul Gibson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Ann Coulter

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Ed Steadham

We're not speculating. We've got a contingency plan. We're rolling up our sleeves.

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

Alex O'Loughlin

I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.