Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...

Charles Spurgeon

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

Audre Lorde

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

Bill Watterson

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

William Shakespeare

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

Caryl Churchill

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Casey Stengel

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

Carl Honore

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

Adrian Tigert

We're excited. We're just going to get ready, go down there and play our hearts out.

Audrey Rust

It's just fabulous. This last quarter has been truly remarkable, it's been inspirational. It just shows that people put their money where their hearts and minds are.

E. Hicks

They played their hearts out, and we did the same. We just want to leave with the win.

David Banner

There's a lot more we can do as artists, ... but I'm really, really proud of the rappers who have stepped up to help. I can honestly say that we've concentrated so much on helping because it's in our hearts and it's the right thing to do.

Derek Harris

This is what some people in their hearts still have, the hatred.

Nancy Boone

It was awesome. The kids played their hearts out, each one of them. ... Everybody's stepping up.

James Frey

Sometimes skulls are thick.Sometimes hearts are vacant.Sometimes words don't work.

Josh Hood

Same thing all year. These kids have hearts of lions. They worked their butts off. When we were down by 14, I knew we were going to make a run.

Anquan Boldin

We're looking to come in and play our hearts out.

Bill Arnold

With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other than praying.

Jim Taylor

It's taken a toll on her. It's taken a toll on me. I try to be as supportive as I can. It's a helpless feeling.

William Howells

They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank.

Wayne Bvudzijena

Other lions, whose number we were not given, also went for the helpless woman and joined in the attack.

Robert Reisz

So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling.

Derek Jeter

We're helpless now. There's nothing you can do. We just wait to see what happens. But we put ourselves in that position.

Lloyd Axworthy

And we were pretty much helpless because this was an unarmed UN mission.

Steve Harris

We all feel particularly helpless at this time as all we can do is sit and wait for news.

Roger Johnson

They would have been rendered helpless from the smoke, ... We are plagued by the loss of life that possibly -- possibly -- could have been prevented.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Helen Sharman

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Roz Chast

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

Alexander McCall Smith

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

Amos Oz

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Robert Kennedy

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Sophia Loren

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.