Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Perrault

However, Cinderella, in spite of her mean apparel, was a hundred times more handsome than her sisters, though they were always richly dressed.

Charles Perrault

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Willie Aames

I never thought of myself as handsome.

Henry Fielding

Handsome is that handsome does.

Matt Smith

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Jeffrey Sharon

I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they'd trade.

Dr. Seuss

I meant what I said and I said what I meant - An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent! Dr

Wilson Mizner

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Marc Bulger

You've got to go with Torry, but once they get going, maybe the second hundred (yards), Kevin would win,

Neil Davidson

It's not a particularly profitable business. There are a hundred other things (where) American investors can put their money to better use and more profitable use.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Glenn Geffner

There are so many variables. These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Wayne Dyer

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Pope Francis

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.