Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Charles Dudley Warner

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Charles de Gaulle

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Charles de Lint

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Charles de Lint

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Charles de Lint

I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Charles de Lint

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

Frances O'Grady

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

Hugo Chavez

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Nicholas Negroponte

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

Naomi Klein

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system...

George Akerlof

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

Lars Peter Hansen

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Joseph Stiglitz

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Betty Smith

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Ron Kittle

This was one of the rotten things that happened.

Donald O'Connor

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

William Shakespeare

A rotten case abides no handling.

Cilla Black

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

David Attenborough

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

Curtis Sliwa

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

Ernest Hemingway

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Jasper Fforde

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!