Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

William Shakespeare

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Bayard Taylor

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

Robyn Kass

We're scouring the (area), looking for the most eligible, charming single people.

Bill Swanson

Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with. Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles.

Richard Walker

Let's face it, Southern poverty is overwhelming, and usually that gets kind of papered over for the rest of us because of the charm of places like New Orleans. But it's pretty grim, really, and now we're being reminded of that.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Naomi Klein

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

E. M. Forster

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

Clement Freud

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Kate Winslet

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Delicacy in woman is strength.

Caleb Spencer

Everyone here just grew up with Spam. It is a delicacy here. It's like steak.

Horace Walpole

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

Howard Schultz

We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).

Chris Cooper

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone

Louis Honore

We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.

Chad Hitchen

We started off by losing a tough one at 103 and we rebounded well with Javier and Mariano (Portillo) having big wins.

Logan P. Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul

Holly Holm

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

Demi Lovato

The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath.

Vini Dawson

Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.

Lindsay Whorton

Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.

Nell Leyshon

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Lois Lowry

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Mack Brown

Pete says if you're talking about the streak and thinking about the streak, it's going to come to an end.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

Stefano Gabbana

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Marvin Kalb

I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Arlen Specter

No senator that I have talked to has come down and made up his or her mind.

Robert Torricelli

I know that's your testimony, Senator Torricelli, but it is not accurate.

Harold Ickes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.