Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Michael Strahan

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Greg Biffle

Until about 20 (laps) to go, and then everybody is going to be racing for that million and a half dollars.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Jeff Bridges

It was fortunate for all of us to have Joaquin Jackson, who is a very renowned Texas Ranger, on board. He spent quite a few days with us on set and he added a lot to it for me on what it's like to be a Texas Ranger.

Pierre Pettigrew

They did everything they could to make her renounce her position,

Simone Weil

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Tracy Chapman

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

David Rice

Will do Satan's work for food.

David Burnett

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

Edwin Louis Cole

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

Carolyn Porco

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Alan Kay

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Beth Moore

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking. We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

Chris Donahue

The shelf space has been shrinking, ... We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix.

Deirdre McQuade

They want to make sure RU-486 is on the shelf of every doctor's office. It's really disgusting.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Monica Johnson

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Beverly Johnson

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Bill Bixby

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Andre Dyson

We're going to the Super Bowl, you know what I'm saying?

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

Demi Lovato

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.