Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muriel Spark

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Charlotte Curtis

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

Kingsley Amis

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Kingsley Amis

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Joanna Trollope

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Charles Reade

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Samuel Johnson

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Thomas Shepard

I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

William Congreve

Who pleases one against his will.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Samuel Johnson

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

William Cowper

I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.

Philip Yancey

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Jerry Spinelli

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Jeremy Shockey

You can't shake him. How young he is, the adjustments he's making week to week -- it's pretty rare in this league.

Jane Curtin

It's rare to read a half-hour script that actually makes you laugh,

Roy Johnson

Its just not that rare if you look at the whole picture,

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Roy Williams

I've rarely watched film of T.O. or Jerry,

Marni O'Doherty

This was rare because there were very persistent, prevalent rumors for about three weeks.

Richard Thaler

So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

Randy Pausch

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.