Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

Charles Stuart Calverley

Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

Al Purdy

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

Chris Bosh

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

David Sedaris

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

David Cross

I did one of the worst shows for that kind of thing in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is one of the most liberal spots on the planet. There were numerous people who walked out, somebody had thrown a beer, I had people yelling and screaming.

Dave Barry

Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.

Dave Barry

Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

Dave Barry

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Brett Scallions

Our older stuff was pretty much the demos that we did on our own. We produced, recorded and mixed them by ourselves, and they were explorations that let us find ourselves.

Peter Cohan

Most demos take 20 minutes or 40 minutes or -- God help you -- longer to get to the point.

Hilary Anderson

Distributors will send demos so that we, as employees, can try them out, so that we can say 'I've played this' and this is what I thought.

Jeff Minter

Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.

Bonnie Tyler

The way we work is to make sure you are picking the right songs. You do 12 rough demos and you only pick six songs out of that to start with.

Jim Sullivan

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

Lesley Gore

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.

Carly Patterson

I'm working with producers right now as I haven't finished my demos yet. Hopefully we can have something out before the end of the year,

Adam Rich

The first EP that we put out, none of the songs from that one got put on this record but a few of the songs from the other demos and EPs made it on.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Charles Dickens

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

Alan Watts

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Al Lopez

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Bob Riley

The primary threat posed by Hurricane Katrina is going to be flooding from storm surge, so those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground.

Brian McInerney

Last year we did have flooding in Cache Valley and Brigham City.

Kent Kuyper

New Orleans is flooding and southwest Louisiana is baking.

Don Powell

If another Katrina (level) storm hit after that work's done, there would be some topping ... but the flooding would be all manageable. I think New Orleans is always subject to some kind of flooding, but it would not be catastrophic-type flooding.

Dexter Williams

What I really liked seeing was that we're not flooding the floor after the game. I walked into the locker room and our guys are all sitting down. They're not satisfied yet. We're not satisfied yet.

Charles Kelly

It could have been worst in terms of flooding and people dying. But we've got a lot of clean-up to do before we can say it is over.

John Corey Whaley

I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'

Kathy Walt

We're preparing for potential inland flooding and tornadoes.

George Herbert

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

John Ray

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

Eddie Vedder

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

David Shuster

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

David Walliams

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

Edward Klein

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

Bill O'Reilly

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

Bernard Goldberg

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Bill Maher

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Clarence Thomas

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.