Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saintsbury

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

Simon Schama

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.

Goldwin Smith

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Ronald Frame

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

Douglas Adams

One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Randy Lambert

Bo just shot the dickens out of it.

Claire Tomalin

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

Claire Tomalin

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Jeff Bell

Success is a journey, not a destination, which explains why I'm not there yet

Marcelo Porto

Some houses are looking for a small cut, which explains the rise we're seeing.

Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike oil.'

Ben Crenshaw

I was just trying to put one foot in front of the other when the week began. I can't explain what happened. My heart was so heavy. I don't know how I did it.

Aaron Rowand

I was out of breath. You can't explain this. There was something special going on tonight.

Rich Brooks

It has been explained to me on numerous occasions from the league office that they review every play, ... They were real slow in reviewing that one, obviously, or reviewed it poorly.

Madeline Albright

I think that Senator Kerry has been working on explaining that. It hasn't come through, ... He is making that message very loud and clear.

Gerry Wright

It explains where these things come from in the first place. This work could prove to be extremely valuable to the drug development process.

Joseph Wong

I think I have explained many times that there is no alternative to legislation if we want to implement this year's pay reduction with certainty. And I think it is only incumbent on the government to proceed with this piece of legislation,

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Tobias Wolff

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Scott Bisbe

That's the thing. If she's not pitching, I got her in there somewhere swinging the bat.

Maria Cheng

It could be Asia. It could be somewhere else.

Blaise Pascal

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Elizabeth Bowen

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Dominic Monaghan

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

David Nicholls

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Felix Hernandez

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

Colin Farrell

Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go..... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.

Owen Fitzpatrick

Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

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.

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.

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.

Lars Larsen

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

Craig Venter

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