Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Charles Dickens

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Alan Jackson

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Alan Colmes

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Alan Bennett

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Alain Resnais

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

Al Jarreau

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

China Mieville

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

Edith Wharton

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

Benicio Del Toro

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Benjamin Franklin

Let the experiment be made.

Biz Stone

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

Benny Hinn

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.