Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

Kevin Cox

We're doing a much better job in Indiana being prepared and collaborating, which speaks highly of the involved agencies.

Michael Sullivan

As much as we might like to recoup our costs, that's not something we can arbitrarily do. It's a highly competitive business.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

Wallace Smith

They were just two clean-living men on their way from work. They were highly respected, well liked and loved, and they respected everyone else.

John Matthews

This is a major piece of (the restructuring), and highly strategic.

Tom Liszka

They return six of seven starters. I'm sure they're thinking they can win. ... It's going to be a highly intense match.

Carolyn Peck

They are going to be highly remembered. When you look at where they started and where they've come, I'm proud of them.

Craig Bibb

They are paying a pretty steep price. They don't have tons of traffic but they do have a highly targeted traffic.

Timothy Ghriskey

It seems to us that this rally is primarily short-covering, rather than something fundamental. The sense is that tech doesn't have much room to go lower.

Neel Mehta

It's a service used primarily in enterprises. You don't see it much on smaller-scale servers or desktops.

Scott Sullivan

primarily Sullivan's testimony that contributed to the government's successful prosecution.

Theo Zwanziger

This is primarily a communicative move, where misunderstandings can be put out of the way,

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Richard Sherman

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Dee Dee Warwick

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

Dee Dee Ramone

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Noel Redding

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Charlie Munger

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle...

Charlie Munger

Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It's not modest-it's arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.

Bill Wyman

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Sam Sheppard

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Michael Schenker

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Cesar Romero

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

Leslie Caron

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.