Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

Charles Stross

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Charles Stanley

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Charles Spurgeon

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Charles Spurgeon

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

Alan Bennett

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

Alan Bennett

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Marcelene Cox

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Blake Shelton

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

Eve Best

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Scott Lewis

There are 1,400 troops here. It's so crazy. I got guys saluting me, and I'm standing here in my big old gardening hat,

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Hilarie Burton

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

David Seabury

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Denise Levertov

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance....

Ben Stein

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Arthur Young

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Elie Wiesel

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Alice Munro

He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Kiki Nesbitt

That was one of the sparks for the show itself.

Immanuel Kant

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.