Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Charlie Chaplin

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Charles Sumner

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Charles de Gaulle

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Charles de Gaulle

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Charles de Gaulle

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Charles de Lint

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

Charles de Lint

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Charles Dickens

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

William Shakespeare

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Bill Swanson

Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with. Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

Richard Walker

Let's face it, Southern poverty is overwhelming, and usually that gets kind of papered over for the rest of us because of the charm of places like New Orleans. But it's pretty grim, really, and now we're being reminded of that.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

George Hecht

We value this historic property so much and we don't want to tear up more of it than we have to.

Ken Mehlman

We are at a very historic moment in terms of the party, but also our community.

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Benjamin Franklin

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bernard Kouchner

There is no question of legislating for the moment. One must actually protect the ill.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.