Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Noble

It's enticing for a lot of them to go over to that side.

Bible Bible

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

Stewart Hall

On any Saturday morning trip out of the house one would be hard pressed not to have noticed rapidly rising home prices, the spike in gasoline costs, and less enticing financing for vehicles.

Lucy Sharratt

The promise of increased profit is too enticing for industry to give up on Terminator seeds.

Jack Valenti

There are public servants, and there are public servants who are stars. Antonio is a star . . . . He is an enticing man.

Billy Collins

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Dickens

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

Charles Dickens

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Charles Dickens

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

Charles Dickens

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

Charles Dickens

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Phil Smith

We were at the gate and refused entry.

Cheryl Crowder

Until that's done it's still kind of guessing. We had 11,000 through the gate last year, and I feel pretty comfortable saying we had at least that many.

Fred Perry

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

Mike Adras

They played a good game. We did not, and they were the tougher team here tonight. We got out of the gate pretty well but hit a tough stretch. We just did not play well.

Edward Kennedy

This is a gateway drug. Smoking and nicotine is an addiction, and this is going right to the core, to the very young in our society.

Clint Wallman

For her first time out of the gate this season, I thought Shannon played a very solid round. She was steady throughout, and I think it is a great start for her.

Dave Foreman

You don't want to throw a kid into gates who's still skiing in a big, wide wedge. You want them to be able to ski well before you introduce them to gates.

David Wilson

There were a lot of people waiting in the gate area, 'See what they're doing - they're throwing me off the plane because I'm fat.

Glenn Miller

It's a big-city feel in a small town. It will jump-start our gateway to the city.

Charles Simmons

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Alan Moore

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

David Riesman

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Gina Barreca

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

Bill Murray

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Carolyn Wells

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Agnes Repplier

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Agnes Repplier

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Mike Scioscia

We are at the point of the year where if you push him back, it could mean one less start at the end of the year. We need to make sure that he can pitch. If we do push him back, we want to make sure we have the matchups we need at the end of the season.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

D. J. MacHale

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Andrew Pyper

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Wylie

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.