Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Kalvin Baker

We want to slow them down and not let them run. We can compete with them if we play good defense.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Nick Saban

We want to see guys compete so we can know whether they need to be here, we want them to be here and if they are the kind of people we want. The record doesn't really matter, the result doesn't matter and the score in the game doesn't really matter.

Nick Petrov

We know what Kyle does in the room. He can compete with the best.

Robert Mugabe

We are a democratic country and my party enjoys overwhelming support. The two gentlemen who purported to have withdrawn actually found it very tough to compete with us. We will win this election,

Leslie Jones

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Shen Xue

We still love figure skating, and we hope we can compete in the Worlds.

Lucas Black

You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Istvan Gyulai

We have no problem with that. Whether or not they can compete in the trials, we leave it in the hands of USA Track & Field.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Steve Thompson

We lacked the killer touch. It is as simple to explain and as difficult to put right as that.

Paul Browne

We know from experience how difficult it can be for new writers to get their work into print. As a result, there is a lot of undiscovered talent out there. We intend to find it.

Sven Eriksson

Wales made life difficult for us, especially hanging in during the first half when I thought we played well,

Pauline Hanson

Wake up, Australia, before it is too late. Australians need and want leaders who can inspire and give hope in difficult times.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Arthur C. Clarke

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Alessio Vinci

The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,

Joe Garagiola

Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.

Clay Sell

There are more than two dozen states where we would look to site a second repository.

John Cross

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,

Jami Attenberg

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

Tom Craft

Jeff is a great receiver in a league where there are probably half a dozen great receivers,

Rob Bibler

I think with Huston, you could pick a dozen films.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Jacques Chirac

Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

Deepak Chopra

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Brad Carson

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Delta Goodrem

What a strange turn of events.

Gayle Falkenthal

Where there is a need we will fill it.

Guy Finley

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

Gary Dunn

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

Yoshinori Ohno

We want to promote understanding and fill in the gaps today or tomorrow.

David Nicholas

We have secured one cargo in January, two in February. We are looking to fill one of our two slots in March. That's the arrangement so far.

Mark Wigley

We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Arndt Ellinghorst

Until now, the Germans thought, 'We can make it with diesel.' They saw hybrid as a technology that was just filling a gap. Now they're seeing that, particularly in the U.S., they're missing a market.

Brene Brown

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

Terri Cash

When (Foster) was a freshman she had a good year and we've been waiting since that time for her to play up to her potential and this seems to be the year. She's taken on a leadership role with our team. It wasn't quite expected, but she's stepped into the role.

Jim Calhoun

When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

Desarae Garland

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

Mike Wheeler

We're just trying new stuff. You've got to make some changes, give the young kids a chance. You saw three sophomores and a freshman out there tonight. Some of the younger kids put in a lot of time during the summer. We're shuffling people in. It's tough.

Brittany Davis

Last year, we were disappointed because we didn't get in, but I think it has been good for us. From our freshman year to now we've learned.

Nancy Winstel

She's been kind of the heir apparent, I think, ever since she got here freshman year.

Tanya Chaplin

She did phenomenal for anyone, but for a freshman to come in and ... win those is a great accomplishment.

Al Peacock

She's a freshman with three years' experience. We've had her since seventh grade.

Jim Click

She played really well. That's a really good freshman they have.

Bruce Marthaller

The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one.

Marcia Gay Harden

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Hayley Orrantia

I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.

Joe DeBruyne

We've got a two-game win streak now. The girls are starting to play with passion and desire.

Jeff Armstrong

We've got a strong girls' team. I think we will be competitive in the WPIAL. We've got a group of juniors who are very talented. I think they are the strength of the team at this point.

Chris Wielgus

We've won 15 of the last 26 Ivy league tournaments. So the girls have been down this road before, they're battle-tested and ready to go.

Ron Reichle

We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing.

Lauren Pittman

We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning.

John Franceschi

We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up.

Marty Hurney

We know what Todd can do and we want to look at the guys we have here. We told Todd it is not necessary for him to come to camp.

Glenn Thiel

We know what have to do. We needed this week to rest our guys up.

Isaiah Thomas

We know how to lift each other when we need it. I know those guys have my back when I need it. We trust each other.

Billy Wagner

We know how important this month is. Guys turned it up for the second game. We're going to have some tough losses, but we didn't let one tough loss turn into two.

Randy Brown

We know at some point somebody's going to put us on our heels and we're going to have to react to that. Today, we thought that might happen, considering the way things were going, but the guys stepped up.

Lee Corso

Wait'll you see Notre Dame, ... These guys are good.

Mike Holman

Vault guys love the sport. You find that they just stay with it, that they want to help everybody.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Charles de Lint

The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to experiment more. If it doesn't work out, I've only lost a week or two of work. If I screw up a novel I've lost at least a year's worth of work. But the nice thing is that those experiments with short stories can be carried over to novels when the experiments do work.

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Renier Gonzalez

We know each other pretty well by now. He's a real nice guy.

Thomas Hutchinson

Waldrop, can you please go back in the office? I don't know how nice I should be to someone who's yelling at me.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.