Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bennett

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

Chris Brown

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

David Sedaris

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

Dave Barry

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Dave Barry

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Dave Barry

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

Dave Barry

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Catherine Bell

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

Cathy Freeman

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Thuy Trang

When we are on the set, there are always experts there to choreograph the moves and improve your form so you look good for the camera.

Bob Farrell

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Damon Lindelof

I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Charles Grassley

We heard much higher numbers today of the stimulus package from our two experts than I anticipated we would hear. In other words, if you're going to do something, it better be something significant enough to get the job done.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Angelina Jolie

I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.

Monica Wright

I feel privileged to be a part of that.

Abbey Clancy

I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

Johann Most

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Pope Francis

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith,

Michael Moriarty

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Carmen Davis

There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.

Charlie Munger

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

Albert Maltz

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Claire Danes

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

Donald Sterling

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?

Benoit Mandelbrot

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

Jordana Brewster

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

Lloyd Kaufman

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

John Hodgman

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.