Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

Alan Greenspan

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Bennett

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Al Seckel

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.

Al Lopez

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

Al Lewis

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

Chris Chocola

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

Denis Waitley

One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

Jack Kerouac

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

Sara Bareilles

My earth is somebody's ceiling

Rohinton Mistry

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Sarah MacLean

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

Wiz Khalifa

Started underneath the floor, Now my money through the ceiling.

Sean Hannity

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

Diablo Cody

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

Indra Nooyi

Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.

Wayne Dyer

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Jeffrey Skilling

Get me as much of that juice as you can.

Andy Milonakis

I'm a really huge fan of papaya juice.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Dane Cook

I don't like when juice wears tights, its a horrible combination when juice wears tights.

Tom Rossley

He wants us to win. I'm sure he doesn't want to throw the picks. But in a competitive situation, his juices (are) flowing, and he thinks he can make some throws. Sometimes he hasn't. Sometimes he has.

Grady Sizemore

We were up early, but it was still 4-0. In this game, that's not too much of a lead. I wasn't trying to juice it. I was just trying to put it in play.