Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Earl Weaver

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Eliza Coupe

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Benjamin Franklin

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Jim Clarke

When they think of pigeons they think of something wild.

Claude Chabrol

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

William Shakespeare

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

William Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...

Alan Alda

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

Jessye Norman

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

May Sarton

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

Al Goldstein

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

Bill Hicks

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Jane Fonda

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

Aldous Huxley

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...

Anne Lamott

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Walter Benjamin

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change