Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Kevin Yates

We want to send as many boys and girls to the district meet as we can and maybe get some individuals and relays to state.

David Walton

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...).

Robin Williams

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Walt Whitman

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Albert Schweitzer

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

Brian Tracy

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Arthur Koestler

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Aristotle

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Alan Cumming

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.