Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

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.

Alex Rodriguez

We know he's got a very fine arm, and he throws 96-97 and throws all his body at you. I took some good swings, he challenged me, and you tip your cap.

Diane Wakoski

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Michael Moorcock

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Sam Walker

It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years.

Neil Shubin

Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish. The shoulder, elbow, and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals.

David Sanborn

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

Paul Theroux

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

Richard Platt

We are particularly interested in recognizing unusual patterns of illness at the earliest possible time.

Adam Clayton

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

Alan Alda

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Mike Jackson

My office has received 50 forms from people who mailed it to us or faxed it, even though there was no return envelope.

Michael Foreman

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Mary Bailey

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Chris Coleman

I am glad he has tied his future to us, he forms an important part of my plans.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Charles de Lint

I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.

Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Jerry Johnson

We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game.

Scott Horowitz

We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.

Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

Jeff Lemire

When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.

Christy Byers

She (Senate) tried to imitate another style that just didn't work for her.

Stendhal

She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Linda Lewis

Kids want to imitate what it is they see in the media.

Luis Santiago

Kids often imitate everything that they see. They try to imitate the shooting and the cops. . . . They see it as fun.

Jess Glynne

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jason Isbell

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.

Ernst Fischer

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Clem Burke

We didn't set out to imitate or parody ourselves.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.

Bob Hope

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Edgar Allan Poe

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Eddy Arnold

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Doug Stanhope

Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Alan Jay Lerner

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alain Robert

I love all people, whatever race they are.

Al McGuire

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Chris Chocola

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.

Chip Kidd

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Benjamin Franklin

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Avril Lavigne

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Nelson Peltz

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.