Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

. . . it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Mike Huckabee

I think the reimbursement is going to come, and I am not going to worry about that, ... But I was just expressing what I know is an overwhelming situation for them.

Landowners have expressed a growing interest in understanding the principles of wildlife habitat management.

My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

David Vitter

Many folks, including me, frankly, were disappointed that Senator Landrieu a few years ago filibustered and supported that filibuster of Miguel Estrada ... after she had expressed strong support of that very nomination in her re-election campaign,

Alfonso Soriano

Look, I know that there are people who are racist, but what surprised me was that he was so open about it. I know there is racism out there, but many people don't express it like that.

Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.

Mike Birbiglia

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Kate Michelman

It is more about them wanting to express great frustration.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation

Mike Myers

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

Warren Spector

I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile.

James Levine

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

Carl Jung

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Calvin Trillin

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Jack Abramoff

Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow for this.

Brooke Adams

Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all

Jack Abramoff

Words can never express my sorrow and profound regret.

Ludwig von Mises

where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.

Oscar Arias

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Oscar Isaac

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Penny Marshall

Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

We wanted to keep it quiet, keep it a surprise for her. I hated to fib and lie to a good friend, but just to see her expression was worth every penny, every minute.

Piet Mondrian

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

We don't take issue with anything the minister has expressed here today.

Frank White

We have spoken to Federal Express to be ready to load up everything the day before Oct. 11, which is Tuesday.

Ethan Zuckerman

We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking risks. It is about free speech, that's all.

Retief Goosen

I would love to win ? not too many players have won it three times, ... But this week, next week at the World Match Play and the American Express are three very important weeks.

Members expressed a lack of understanding about the project. They wanted to make sure we're not just giving money to a pizza joint.