Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brian Andreas

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Carson McCullers

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Charles Darwin

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Billy Bragg

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

Charles Spurgeon

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Anthony Minghella

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Anne Bronte

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

Swami Vivekananda

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Simone Elkeles

We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.

Ron Paul

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled,

Stephen Stills

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

Alison Davis

Just give us the directions. I promise we'll show up.

William Carey

The future is as bright as the promise of God.

P. J. O'Rourke

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

Kenny Rogers

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

Steve Erickson

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.