Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ackerman

We're still three-to-four weeks away from second-quarter earnings reports and there's nothing really to light a candle under stocks,

Michael Leunig

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Gedde Watanabe

Sixteen Candles was my first film. I was 28 years old studying Shakespeare in New York, and it just freaked me out that this thing got so well known.

Andrew Fletcher

Like his that lights a candle to the sun.

William Valentine

Never leave a candle unattended keep it one foot away from combustibles and don't place it near windows or doorways where drafts can occur. Of course keep candles away from any sort of flammable liquids.

Bible Bible

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Wilferd Peterson

While there is life there is hope, has deeper meaning in reverse. While there is hope there is life. Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on. Hope sees a light where there isn't any. Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts. Where would I be without hope?

H. Hart

We have to go out there and prove ourselves to where they can't say we're not a top-five team. You don't want everybody out there saying, 'Oh, you're the No. 1 team.' We want to come out and prove to ourselves that we can be a top team.

Rahshon Clark

We have to get together as a team and just talk. What is going on right now should not be happening. Everybody has their own opinion of what's going on and things we have to do.

Bob Thomas

We have no place to go. We tried the housing authority, we tried every place to get a house, but everybody says they can't do it.

Tony Dungy

When everybody gets healthy, I think we're going to like our roster, ... We like the guys we have.

Ken Hitchcock

When your top goal scorer goes out, everybody sees it.

Bob Whitelaw

We want everybody up here having a good weekend.

Jack Fultz

We want everybody to have a good time.

John Gorman

We want everybody to be satisfied, ... We are more than willing to participate in resolving any problems that need to be resolved.

Geno Auriemma

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We've got all the ingredients. It's just a matter of doing it.

Carol Moseley Braun

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Carlos Fuentes

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

C. S. Lewis

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

John Hudson

We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that.

Agnes Smedley

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Alan Sillitoe

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Alan Shepard

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

Charlotte Bronte

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

Charlotte Bronte

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Jason Fuchs

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

Jessica Williams

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Kim Novak

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star. Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

Arnold Rothstein

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

David Heyman

But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.

Austin Stowell

I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.

Wyclef Jean

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

Rupert Grint

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Zoe McLellan

I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Dick Armey

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,

Dave Barry

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

Dave Barry

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Cary Fukunaga

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

James Wolcott

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

Edmund Hillary

Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

Catherynne M. Valente

...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...

Charles Simic

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Charles Sumner

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

C. S. Lewis

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Charles Dickens

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

Charles Dickens

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Charles Dickens

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

Charles Dickens

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Brian Eno

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.