Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Alan Ball

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Alan Ball

It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Alan Ball

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Alan Ball

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Alan Ball

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Charles Spurgeon

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Charles Spurgeon

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

Francis Bacon

The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature

William Shakespeare

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

David Brainerd

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Billy Sunday

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Nick Harkaway

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

Monica Lewinsky

I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it.

Tina Brown

I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news.

Paul Holmgren

Kiel is a big kid and we think there is some potential that has yet to be tapped into. He is a player that our scouting has been enamored with because of his size.

Thaksin Shinawatra

petty, vindictive and not very well-informed autocratic leader who is enamored of his own sense of grandeur.

Herman Edwards

Some people get enamored with a person's lifestyle,

Robert Brooks

I've not been enamored with the industry in general. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

Roger Dearing

I'm not enamored with it. It has some issues.

Reese Witherspoon

I just think they have a unique love story, in that they were working side-by-side for 12 years and completely enamored of each other and couldn't be together. It was a really good story.

Kevin Bacon

I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are some of my heroes, and to be in the same room listening to them play or to what they have to say is fun for me.

Charles Taylor

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Alan Watts

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Bennett

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

David Sanborn

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Buddy Holly

That'll be the day when I die.

Brunello Cucinelli

Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

Jack Kerouac

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Edith Wharton

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

David Icke

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

Sharda Persaud

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

Billy Donovan

We felt like Darrel Mitchell was the key to their team, so we tried to run at him and trap him as much as we could. When he gets his 18 or 19 points, everything else falls into place.

H. Hunt

We feel that Niagara Falls will be on the upswing and we want to be a part of it.

Ken Leung

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Mark White

When it (the price) falls to between one or up to two times the price of steel then it (aluminum) will grow into the mass volume market -- not before.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Thomas Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Tommy Fabian

She tends to throw good pitches when she falls behind.

Brian Beckwith

When you can pass, the rest falls into place.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Heather Ross

She (Victoria) can't lie to save her life. She takes responsibility for everything she does.

Bible Bible

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Bill Summee

We didn't think we should be the ones to tell him. We didn't lie to him, but we thought his parents should tell him.

Andre Hall

I can't lie to you. I wanted to size him up, see how tall he was, how much he really weighed. I just wanted to get my own view of him.

William Bastone

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

Bill Clinton

If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charles de Lint

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

Charles Dickens

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Charles Dickens

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charles de Lint

Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Alanis Morissette

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perfect love knows no because

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

David McCullough

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Edith Sitwell

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Diablo Cody

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edith Sitwell

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

William Shakespeare

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Boris Diaw

We still want to win and see which team we've got to play (in the post-season). We got a little tired because we didn't play with Steve and Raja, and they usually play a lot. Sometimes we get to rest up because Steve is doing all the work.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Edgar Cayce

Death is only passing through God's other door.

Edgar Cayce

Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.

Arthur Eddington

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

e. e. cummings

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

Bill Bryson

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

Anna Wickham

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Steve Wilson

It's a very sensual dance. It's all about the attitude.

Nhat Hanh

We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

Janet Fitch

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.