Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Charles Stanley

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

Charles Stanley

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Charles Stanley

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.

Alan Watts

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Alan Watts

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

Alan Watts

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Alan Watts

We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

Alan Perlis

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Jake Epstein

I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which hopefully makes them more likable.

Ellsworth Kelly

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Nick Harkaway

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.

Muhammad Ali

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder

Henry Cavill

Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive ...

Elaine Sciolino

Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'

Edith Bowman

Some days I fancy him, others I want to flush hid head down the toilet.(on Colin Murray)

Ariel Sharon

I'm a friend of Colin Powell. We talk quite often.

Jacques Chirac

France is waiting to see what Colin Powell says tomorrow and what (weapons inspector Hans) Blix says on the 14th,

Jose Aznar

I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld

Robert Davenport

He didnt miss much, ... I told Colin when he got here, if he listens to what we tell him, then hes going to make money playing this game for a long, long time. And so far hes been like a sponge. Hes soaked everything in that weve told him.

Rich Bond

If some larger-than-life personality -- let's say Colin Powell -- decided he wanted to launch a third-party candidacy for some office, I think he'd be an impact player. But he's not running.

Peter McEvoy

First and foremost, Colin is a safe pair of hands. He's a very sound individual who understands golf, having lived and worked in it all his life. He was good enough to make it to Walker Cup level as a player, and he captained Scotland to European Championship success. In other words, he ticks all the boxes. What more could you want?

Pete Sessions

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Doug Deming

We have no gimmicks. We play pure traditional music from the heart, with an image that conveys a deep respect for the genre.

Jake T. Austin

With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it's hard. You've got to visualize everything.

Tracy Letts

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Henry Lee

The eyes are the most difficult part. It's essential to have a pair of eyes that convey a vivid expression and spirit.

Marian Keyes

Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.

Dallas Willard

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

Edward Norton

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

David A. Bednar

Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.

Charles Dickens

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

Charles Dickens

The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

Charles Dickens

"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end."

Charles Stross

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.

Charles Spurgeon

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Charles Spurgeon

The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

Charles Spurgeon

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

Alan Parsons

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Alan Parsons

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Ashlee Smith

We started playing together, and we picked it up intensity wise.

Randy Snelling

We started off slow, but we really turned up the intensity in the second half.

Cooper Farris

We're going to need to show more intensity than we have in the past. Co-Lin is a better team than Jones and the split with Pearl River shows that.

Dave Schutter

Workouts went good. The intensity was good. Of course, it's the end result. We have to wait and see how we perform out in competition, see how we perform at the end of the season when it matters the most.

Joe Layne

We knew they (Oneida) were going to be ready, and I think we were too. We had to match their intensity and I think we did that.

John Lazicki

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

Jason Bowen

We didn't play with a lot of intensity in the girls' game.

Jeff Holland

We still have to play with the same intensity as (Tuesday). We want to win (the Fiesta Region).

H. Judd

We still don't have the speed that we'd like, but we've got a lot of intensity out there.

Alan Ball

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Darren Shan

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

David Sedaris

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Catherine Deneuve

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Camille Paglia

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Deborah Harkness

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Bill Nighy

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

Charlaine Harris

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.