Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Earl Weaver

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Chita Rivera

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Audrey Hepburn

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

Laurent Brancowitz

To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Todd Campbell

A lot of tech stocks that were 'Steady Eddies' were not subject to hype. They were boring stocks. But those stocks had strong top- and bottom-line growth.

Fred Droes

It's not illegal to drive round and round, but it gets pretty boring after two or three times.

David Archuleta

It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.

Jim Fisher

It's a boring stock; its growth days are behind. Microsoft coming out with a new operating system doesn't generate the excitement it used to.

Ron Gardenhire

It's a boring kind of thing, really. I think common sense pretty much tells you where it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

Jeff Parker

It was very satisfying to see, ... but disappointing not to be part of it.

Dwyane Wade

You probably make about two out of every 10 or 12. That's why it's so satisfying when you make one.

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

Chad Hurley

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

Jonathan Tropper

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Michael Shanks

I find directing more satisfying.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Joel Grey

How satisfying it is to do theater that really has ""something important to say.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.