Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Al Borges

We lacked rhythm. We dropped the ball or we made a bad throw or we had a protection breakdown seemed it was something different every time.

Joe Torre

We know he has ability, but he's inexperienced. So I thought losing Colon was a bad break for them and a good one for us. Mike trusted him right down to the seventh inning, and unfortunately, we couldn't cash in on some of the opportunities we had.

Liz Miller

We know companies are going to tell us they have no visibility ? they don't know when it's going to get better. Everyone knows its bad so it's in the market. The big question mark is still going to be the economy.

Todd McCullough

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Al Harrington

We've won our last three that way. We'll take 26 more like that as long we win. We never get discourage. We just play through our mistakes and that's the biggest difference.

Scott Adcock

We know we're going to get sleet and snow, but just how we're going to be impacted by the icing is our biggest concern.

Andrew Fletcher

We know how popular it is in the States, and I think the bill looks very interesting. California is probably our biggest market in the States, so we're looking forward to that.

Michael Strahan

I have the biggest sweet tooth! You name it, I will eat it. My all-time favorite is my mother's butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much. This makes my siblings mad because they think she favors me. I don't care because she probably does!

Brian France

The other thing is, I know how competitively hungry they are. They're not here just to be here. They're here to compete hard, showcase their products and support their teams. And they're going to do it on the biggest stage.

Michael Klein

The potential of the hybrid capital market is enormous. As issuers and investors become more comfortable with these securities, they could become one of the biggest corporate funding innovations since high yield bonds.

Francois Trahan

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

Don Briel

The perception of some of the elderly is that it's electronic, and (they) don't want to get near it, but quite frankly, it's easier to use than the paper ballots. My biggest concern is elderly people that are too fearful to even try.

Len Lauer

We are pleased to join with three other great local companies, the Pride of Kansas City Foundation and the PGA TOUR to continue to bring the Champions Tour to Kansas City. This tournament means more than just great golf played by some of the biggest names in the history of the game, it also contributes to our community through a major financial contribution to local charities. Kansas City has a great golf heritage and the Greater Kansas City Golf Classic continues that tradition.

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charles Tupper

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Peter Chapman

We have not had so many top performers before.

Marc Walters

We have struggled to put performers on the first team because that's not how our team is built.

Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.

Lauren London

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

Mick Ronson

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

Russell Brand

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Spanish Proverb

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Chuck Feeney

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Mark Begich

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

Andy Serkis

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

David Levithan

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

David Baldacci

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

Fred Peters

They're trying to set some kind of trap for appeal, judge, but I don't think you have to go for it.

Arthur Bryant

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

Lois Lowry

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

John Dos Passos

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

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Charlaine Harris

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

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.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.