Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Jonathan Orr

We're in this together. I'm sure outside sources will point fingers (at the defense). But last year it was a different story, remember? We're a team and that's what this all comes down to.

Chris Kramer

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,

Elton John

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Jarvis Johnson

Should it have been done properly? Yes. But I'm not here to point fingers who didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Laura Bush

She and I were like two fingers crossed,

john bejo

Leaves are fingers of God: they're pliant, confident, proud and beautiful. That's how we should be...

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cross

I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

David Suzuki

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Bill Rodgers

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

Bernie Mac

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Annalee Newitz

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Paul Dergarabedian

We're getting to the point where people only want to go out to see movies that are as big as the screen. They want to see 'event movies' like 'Kong.' The rest they'll wait for.

Kent Beck

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Tony Scott

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Alan Watts

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

Alan Parsons

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Alain Prost

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Alain Prost

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

Alain Prost

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Al Oerter

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

Al Michaels

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

Al Michaels

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

Al Michaels

Do you believe in miracles?

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Alan Ball

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

David Tennant

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

Carolina Kostner

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours...

Charles Lindbergh

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

David Brin

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Ted Sarandos

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Gary Johnson

I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

David Edwards

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.