Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Spurgeon

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

Edith Hamilton

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Jorge Luis Borges

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

Eve Ensler

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

Eoin Colfer

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

Peter Stone

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

Pablo Neruda

Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

Mattie Stepanek

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Robert Kiyosaki

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

Kim Kardashian

I rented an island for [Kanye West] birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.

Alaina Huffman

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Tom Petty

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. You're obligated to play some of that stuff that people know, but I don't think that's all you have to do.

Thomas Shepard

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

Armand Assante

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

Julie Powell

She can curse right and she looks as though she's eaten French food before.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

She has heard a whisper say,/ A curse is on her if she stay/ To look down to Camelot.

Elizabeth Watson

Yes, scary. And people were telling them to 'just shut up,' and cursed at them.

Bill O'Reilly

Sean Penn is a left-wing guy, ... He's been that way, his father was that way, he's always going to be that way. He goes down to New Orleans with his boat, he rescues some people, and he does some good. The right kills him, and his wife curses at the right - it's all just a whole big charade. It doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that the guy did actually rescue some people.