Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Charles Caleb Colton

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Stross

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Charles Spurgeon

The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

Charles Spurgeon

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Alan Moore

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Alan Moore

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Kaline

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David R. Ellis

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Caroline B. Cooney

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

Peter Lilley

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.