Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bess Truman

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

Charlie Munger

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Bruce Feiler

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Demetri Martin

I wanna put stickers on turtles... I don't know why.

Dana Carvey

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

Arthur Miller

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

Bobby Darin

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Christopher Moore

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

Ambrose Bierce

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Camille Paglia

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

Catherine Tate

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Edward Hopper

Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Beatrix Potter

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.