Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Erasmus Darwin

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

Audrey Tautou

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

C. S. Lewis

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Charlie Munger

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Bettie Page

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

Gaston Bachelard

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Eva Zeisel

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Cassandra Clare

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

Darby Stanchfield

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Guido van Rossum

Invariably, you'll find that if the language is any good, your users are going to take it to places where you never thought it would be taken.

Michiel Huisman

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

Benjamin Franklin

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Annie Schmidt

A dutch novel is like a lame coitus

Kate Warne

Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market. The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.

Kate Warne

Royal Dutch and Exxon have always traded at premiums in the market, ... The merger puts BP and Amoco in the same size and presence globally, and it should give them the same premium value.

Michiel Huisman

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

Pierre Corneille

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

Prince Charles

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Sharon Horgan

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

John E. Walker

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.