Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Alan Bennett

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.

Alan Bennett

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Edith Sitwell

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Eddie Izzard

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

Eddie Izzard

You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!

Earl Wilson

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

David Brinkley

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

David Brin

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

Charles Sturt

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

Charles Spurgeon

Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

Alan Moore

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

Eddie Izzard

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

Daymond John

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

David Travis

Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

David Duke

The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

David Brooks

I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

Barney Frank

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Chinua Achebe

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

Earl Wilson

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Dean Acheson

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Barry Diller

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Audre Lorde

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.