Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Dickens

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

Ed Begley, Jr.

It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

Chanakya

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

Charlaine Harris

But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

Bob Saget

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

Bob Saget

Around comics, I've always been known for, oh, that's not dirty, this is dirty.

Billy Wilder

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

William Shakespeare

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Charles Dickens

Eccentricities of genius.

Edmond de Goncourt

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

William Shakespeare

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Aaron Yoo

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Charles Dickens

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Laurie Garrett

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

Blanche Lincoln

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Alexander McCall Smith

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

William Shakespeare

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be

Stephen Schwartz

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

Sara Teasdale

Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass.

Joel Hirschhorn

She's 64 years old. She's a frail woman. I think she's in a state of shock, understandably so.

Sylvia Plath

One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.

Morag Joss

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?