Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

Lord Byron

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

David Watson

We decided that either the third time was the charm, or at the very least, the last time either of us was going through it.

Terry Crews

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Will Scheffer

We didn't want it to be too tract-home-like, we wanted this very charming and very sparsely populated neighborhood.

David Cameron

I would say it is more homely than chi-chi but all the more charming for that,

Louie Yang

I think these are pretty charming and mellow insects. They don't move very quickly, they don't sting or bite, and for the most part they are very easy to handle and to touch to observe in nature.

Al Edwards

It bounced around the rim three times, probably hit every part of the rim and then went in. This time we just had the lucky charms in our favor.

Josh Billings

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first

Fergus Henderson

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Lauren Holmes

I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'

Hannah Cowley

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.

John Clare

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

Shreya Ghoshal

I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces... or my brothers... in the audience. It comforts me.

Al Horford

I can use my charms to raise money for a good cause. I just have to show up.

Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Lint

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

Charles Caleb Colton

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

Charles Caleb Colton

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

Charles Stanley

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Charles Spurgeon

I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

Charles Spurgeon

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

Alan Ball

Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.