Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

David Sedaris

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

David Cross

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

C.J. Wilson

I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.

Kurt Vonnegut

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Diablo Cody

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Diablo Cody

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Chad Kroeger

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Demetri Martin

I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way.

Bob Dylan

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

Cary Fukunaga

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it...

Edward M. Lerner

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

Charles Baudelaire

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Terry Hayes

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

Kenneth Branagh

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

Kate Reardon

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

Kevin McKidd

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Dean Koontz

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

Eli Roth

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.