Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

Terry Thornton

We're in desperate need of beds right now. We have more inmates than we've ever had -- it's an all-time high.

Denis Waitley

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Joel Dieterich

We have to go home, go to bed and come with some energy tomorrow.

Chad Williams

We were at the West End and catching them throughout the day. There were big fish on the beds everywhere.

Steve Ridder

We were a team tonight, in the truest sense of the word, because we have quality people in uniform. We don't have any ego-type players. These guys get out of bed every day trying to figure out ways to help this team.

Chanel Iman

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

Charlie Munger

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Michel Houellebecq

You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'

Jamie Muir

Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

Jamie Muir

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

William Cullen Bryant

Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.

Michel Faber

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

William Shakespeare

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

Shawn Amos

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

Mal Moore

The human tragedy as a result of Katrina is staggering, and I know Crimson Tide fans will do what they can to help those who are not able to immediately return to their homes.

Charles Dickens

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

Charles Dickens

The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.

Charles Dickens

"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end."

Charles Stross

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.

Charles Spurgeon

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Charles Spurgeon

The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.

Charles Spurgeon

The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

Alan Parsons

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Alan Parsons

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

Atharva Veda

The Perfect Lord is All-pervading everywhere; He destroys the poison of Maya. I am rid of the three-phased Maya, dwelling in the Pure Lord.

David Beckham

We're in form. When we make the most of our potential, we can destroy any team we come up against.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Tom Thomson

We're going to drive the people off the land who have been living on it and working it for generations. It's going to destroy our No. 1 industry: tourism.

Terry Brooks

what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.

Jeff Tittel

There are people out there who want to destroy the highlands.

Italo Calvino

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Robert Teeter

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.

George Granville

She will, and she will not - she grants, denies,-Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies

Ron Gatewood

Juan Jose Alfonso now flies with God -- I am sure.

Jordan Palmer

He's a Thomas Howard-like linebacker who just flies around.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''

Bob Holthus

He flies to Kentucky Monday morning. Odds for the Kentucky Derby? I think he will be no worse than second choice. Of course, I might have a bias.

English 17th Century Proverbs

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

Ivan Turgenev

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

Pete Conrad

Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last 30 years.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Deepak Chopra

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

Adam Smith

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Adrian Rogers

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Chuck Palahniuk

Make me into anything, but just love me.

E. L. Konigsburg

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

John Williamson

He's been invisible when important policy issues have sprung up. They just seem to have missed opportunity after opportunity.

Elisabeth Rohm

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Charles Dickens

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Giuntoli

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Acquaint thyself with God.

Cornelia Funke

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

Edgar Allan Poe

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Bible Bible

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.