Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Davis

We were trying to get someone to drive in and if he could look for someone to take an open shot.

Alan Turing

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

Alan Shearer

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.

Alan Lee

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Alan Lee

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Alan Lomax

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Alan Kay

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Charlotte Bronte

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Charlotte Bronte

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

Charlotte Bronte

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane.

Charlotte Bronte

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlie Crist

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

Charlie Cox

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

Charlie Cox

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Charlie Chaplin

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

Charles Walters

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

Charles W. Chesnutt

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Charles Edward Merriam

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

Charles de Lint

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

Charles de Lint

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

Charles Dickens

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

Charles Dickens

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

Charles Dickens

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Chiang Kai-shek

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Chetan Bhagat

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

Chester Bennington

Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping

Chester Bennington

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

Cheryl Richardson

Don't be limited by what has been. Be inspired knowing that what could be is far greater than your wildest dreams.

Cheryl Richardson

Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.

Cheryl Richardson

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.