Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Colton

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Charles Dickens

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Charles Dickens

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

Charles Studd

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Chris Colfer

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

Ed Helms

I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.

Ben Bernanke

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

Ben Bernanke

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

Beverley Mitchell

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

Brett Ratner

I'm definitely not a nerd.

Aziz Ansari

I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.

Channing Tatum

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

Channing Tatum

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

Louis Navellier

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

Erica Cerra

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!

Bridgit Mendler

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

Robert Stephens

The only people who have time to learn all this stuff are geeks who stay home on Saturday night.

Adam McKay

My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.

Amber Benson

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

Richard Armitage

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.