Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Cheryl Strayed

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.

Cheryl Strayed

Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Charlize Theron

I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

Charles Lamb

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

Charlaine Harris

Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,” Eric said, and I understood he wasn’t really talking to me but to himself. “You’re too unique to waste.” And then he opened the door.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Baudelaire

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charles Baudelaire

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Charlie Munger

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

Charlie Munger

I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Charles M. Schulz

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

Charles M. Schulz

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Charles M. Schulz

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

Bob Ross

Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.

Bill Maher

North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and that’s North Carolina today.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Bill Ayers

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

Bernard Marcus

As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

Bob Kane

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Romesh Gunesekera

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

Vince Carter

You don't know what to expect. The only way you can really understand it is just being in it.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.