Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Alan Watts

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Akshay Kumar

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Chris Cooper

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Chogyam Trungpa

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Chita Rivera

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

David LaChapelle

The adornment of the body is a human need.

David LaChapelle

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

Dave Barry

I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

John Bolton

We are preparing a resolution for the full council to adopt. It would impose the sanctions. It's a down payment, and certainly not the end of the sanctions process.

Michael Dell

There are certainly very high-growth markets outside the U.S.. China is the fourth-largest market in the world for Dell to sell its products and we're growing fast there.

Alan Davis

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

David Hallberg

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

Nadine Smith

There are certainly issues that keep people from pursuing hate-crime charges. It's a system that's fraught with challenges because of the under-reporting.

Charles Clark

There are certainly hundreds of individuals who we have been watching very closely and continue to watch extremely closely ... because of the threat they offer,

R. Robinson

There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to have fully clarified,

Russell Walters

When you start motivating people to work faster, you've got to keep safety in there because you can work faster at the expense of safety.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Richard Vespucci

We would question the necessity of an expense like that.

Alan Kopit

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

James Farrell

Shopping is a pleasurable experience for many people; there's actually a hormonal release that makes us feel good. For some, shopping is a vacation, ... And the mall operators know that and spare little expense in market research to get them inside to shop.

Reg Alcock

The reality is, every single expense that was incurred was within the policy of the Mint, was vetted by their senior financial officer and was approved.

Proverb

The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Sharon Harrington

This would be a huge expense and very difficult.

Gary Payton

We're going to have to play freely and open.

Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.

Bill Scannell

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

John Milton

Freely we serve / Because we freely love, as in our will / To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Bruno Cullen

Most of the players we're talking to now, we're talking to freely with the knowledge that Shane could stay or go.

Jane Walsh

Just because you work in one of the hottest restaurants in town does not give you the right to freely dispense the attitude.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Chuck Logsdon

We have been negotiating for a process that includes some parameters that should keep us on that timeline.

Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it,

Skip Rutherford

The recipes are good, but the stories are also good, ... It includes all ranges of Clinton's life.

Barry McCaffrey

The medical, scientific process is open to any drug. That includes marijuana. But you have to get through a process and demonstrate scientific validity. And in this case, to be honest, I think it's nonsense. This is mostly a 'Cheech and Chong' show for the quasi-legalization of marijuana.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Al Johnson

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.

Dan Ferrelli

It's possible that not all of the homicides occurred in Aurora's jurisdiction.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

John Barth

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Robert Huber

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

Sue Prosser

She is one of the most prominent radiologists in Orlando. She will talk about her state-of-the-art equipment. We are proud of that.

Kabir Bedi

I've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.

Napoleon Hill

You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.

Alan Colman

They are a big catch. They are prominent researchers, very successful in the U.S..

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Darren Shan

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Carolina Herrera

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Carl Hiaasen

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Brigham Young

We went west willingly--because we had to.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.