Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee: Don't Inhale .

Charles de Lint

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Richard Boucher

We have plenty of warnings for American citizens around the world, and it's just advice to people to tell them what to expect. And governments do that because they have an obligation to their own citizens.

Mr Howard

We have reissued our avian influenza travel bulletin and travel advice and we have helped the Indonesians with medications in relation to this and we're in very close contact with Indonesian authorities,

Bob Whitley

There are a lot of bargains out there. The best advice is pick up a phone and call a travel agent right now, before you lose the opportunity. Some tour operators' products are available up to 24 hours before leaving.

John Williams

There is considerable appetite for specialist advice delivered by dedicated senior bankers who have no product conflicts.

Ricky Gervais

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Carlos Castaneda

Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

Aaron Swartz

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Clarence Fountain

We were blind, so everybody was dark to us,

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Alan Thicke

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Alan Titchmarsh

I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Charles de Lint

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Barry Schwartz

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

Ray Davidson

Year-in and year-out, Hidden Valley is a powerhouse in swimming in the Roanoke area. In the past, they've been very, very good.

Barry Unsworth

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

Doug Conaway

There is nothing hidden here. I've wanted to move on for some time.

A. N. Wilson

We don't need another Teflon-like hidden risk at DuPont.

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Carol Leifer

I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

Carol Shields

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Carol Shields

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Carlos Queiroz

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

Reg Pullen

We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But it's just for aesthetics.

Lauren Brightwell

Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light.

Douglas Alexander

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Lily Chatterjee

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

Jacques Chirac

We can't reveal the secrets of the confessional.

William Shatner

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

Ben Bass

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

Sebastian Horsley

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Zahi Hawass

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Charles Spurgeon

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Eleanora Duse

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Sandra Cisneros

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

David H. Murdock

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

Caio Fonseca

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Bryan Ferry

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

Jane Austen

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Jimmy Dean

We are going to shut it off at 33 or 34 teams. We still have room for individuals and for some teams.

Eckhart Tolle

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Edward Said

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

Brad Gilbert

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Angela Ruggiero

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Plato

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Rosanne Cash

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Lakpa Sherpa

We have no car, no bicycle, and no roads. We have to walk everywhere.

Brandon Boyd

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Kathleen Robertson

There are a lot of stars I've worked with - big stars - who, when they walk on set, the energy just changes.

Jane Austen

I walk: I prefer walking.

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Charles Baudelaire

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Bessie Coleman

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Benny Hinn

I walk in the realm of the supernatural.