Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. Its the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

Carl Barat

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

C. S. Lewis

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Aaron Sorkin

Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

Aaron Sorkin

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Charlie Daniels

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

Charles de Lint

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Charles Dickens

For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Benjamin Hoff

While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.

Craig Ferguson

Harry Potter, he sends a message on Owl Mail while us poor old muggles have to make do with instantaneous emails and texting. Oh, if only we could be like you Harry Potter, with your four day owl delivery!

William Shakespeare

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits.

Victor Hugo

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

Bill Vaughan

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Scott Snyder

Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.

Margaret Cavendish

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

J. K. Rowling

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

J. K. Rowling

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

Charlie Hunnam

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Dennis Weaver

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Brian Mulroney

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Alain de Botton

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Donald E. Westlake

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

Annie Lennox

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

Noam Chomsky

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.