Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Alan Watts

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Akshay Kumar

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Chris Cooper

I'm thrilled with my body of work.

Chogyam Trungpa

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

Dave Bradley

We're in a league with schools who have three times the student body to get players from.

Menander

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Golda Meir

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Even tho' thrice again/ The red fool-fury of the Seine/ Should pile her barricades with dead.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Anthony Hsieh

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

Norwegian Proverb

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise

Yiddish Proverbs

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

Josh Billings

Everyone has his foolishness and mostly those are the most interesting things a person has.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

Alan Paton

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

Alan Moore

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Alan Jackson

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

Alan Greenspan

The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Cooper

You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

Alan Brien

You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.

Alan Ball

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Eleanor Cook

They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones who let a pedophile go.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Brent Thompson

It ought to be done in a content-neutral fashion.

John Starnes

They're going to be short, but they ought to be pretty powerful.

Andrew Young

There's another side of the story that ought to be told.

Maurice Carroll

People think Bloomberg ought to have more to do with it.

Laura DiDio

After six years of development it ought to be ready by now.

Robert Teeter

Detente is a particularly unpopular idea with most Republican primary voters and the word is worse. We ought to stop using the word whenever possible.

Phil Harding

Some people say we ought to go back to the good, old days, but what were they?

Suzanne Lindley

For as long as the ride rolls forward, so too, does life.

Rudyard Kipling

There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.

Bobby Frankel

This is the smoothest ride she's ever had since I've had her,

Quentin Griffin

It was a roller-coaster ride for me mentally,

Benjamin Franklin

Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

John Bryan

The ride is set up to showcase South Carolina. We're trying to show off our state.

Jay Gibbons

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.

John Kinsey

We've seen that kind of roller-coaster ride before, and this is just another one of these.

Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Edith Wharton

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

John Heywood

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Bob Marley

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

William Shakespeare

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Charles Wolfe

Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,—though I shall not be near thee; Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Rose Johnson

They should be able to stand on their own after that.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Susan Wheeler

There wasn't anything that would stand in her way of doing something.

Johnnie Hayes

It was still standing and a tree was on it, but it was flooded. Everything we had in there was ruined, our TV and all our furniture.

Burton Rascoe

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Amanda Hocking

Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.

Stephenie Meyer

Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda

Paul Ballew

We do have some payback out there staring us in the face.

Gary Shaw

We try to give them a little leeway. They're not always staring at their watches.

Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Marc Guggenheim

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

Rick Riordan

I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.