Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claire Tomalin

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

Dazzy Vance

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

Simon Schama

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.

Douglas Adams

One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.

Jim Crace

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Goldwin Smith

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Ronald Frame

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

Nate Robertson

He wants our expectations to be greater than maybe they've been.

Randy Perreira

Hawaii people have a greater tolerance for fairness.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Anton LaVey

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

William Wordsworth

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

Rob Bell

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Richard Rohr

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

Samuel Rutherford

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

Samuel Rutherford

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

Samuel Rutherford

It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Joshua Harris

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

Calvin Trillin

The price of purity is purists.

Blaise Pascal

The stream is always purer at its source.

Anil Kapoor

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Anselm of Canterbury

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Swami Vivekananda

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Federico Fellini

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Nick Cave

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

John Beilein

I thought that's what he was going to try to do (miss). That's why I called a timeout. Thank goodness, he made the shot.

Bill Uttley

I want to thank Mr. Edwards for his time in the negotiations.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

Travis Barker

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

William Foege

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Tracy Letts

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'