Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Alan Sugar

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Alan King

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Alan Kay

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Alan Kay

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Alan Kay

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Alan Kay

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Charlotte Bronte

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

Charlotte Bronte

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Charlie Chaplin

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Charlie Chaplin

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Charlie Chaplin

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Charles Tupper

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Edward Merriam

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Charles Dickens

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

Chevy Chase

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

Chevy Chase

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chetan Bhagat

I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

Cheryl Richardson

Never underestimate the power of intention.

Cheryl Richardson

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

Cheryl Richardson

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

Cheryl Richardson

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

Cheryl Mendelson

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

Chen Guangcheng

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Charlotte Bronte

I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

Charlotte Gainsbourg

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.