Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Bono

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Albert Einstein

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

David A. Bednar

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

Georg Brandes

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Nicolas Chamfort

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Brad Rehak

This winter has been several degrees warmer than usual. Normally, we would predict highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

Charles Babbage

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.