Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Ed Belfour

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

Cheryl Strayed

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Colleen Haskell

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.

Carrie Fisher

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Jonny Lang

I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.

Jonathan Tropper

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

Liz Murray

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it,

Dean Koontz

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Bethenny Frankel

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Oliver Cromwell

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

Emily Giffin

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Gwen Stefani

I have learned to delegate.

Philippa Gregory

I have learned the power of surviving.

Henry A. Kissinger

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

Terry Tempest Williams

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.