Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Alan Watts

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

Alan Watts

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

Alan Watts

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Alan Price

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Alan Moore

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

Alan Moore

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Alan Moore

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Alan Jackson

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

Alan Bean

I have the nicest life in the world.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Sam Bush

It's just wonderful that he's still here, that he's made it this far.

Tommy Franks

They have accomplished some wonderful things out there,

Larry Kane

They had a wonderful sense of themselves, and they were very smart,

Alice B. Toklas

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Ann Wilson

For Ed to do what he did, it?s a wonderful thing,