Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Al Sharpton

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Matt Damon

We actually begged him to switch roles because he originally cast us flip-flopped and we both felt like we'd done that before. So we asked him and it's more challenging and more fun for everybody if they're doing stuff a little differently.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

Lee Huenecke

We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.

Ann Thomas

We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving as we say,

Gary Woods

We started talking and half-jokingly, I think, I asked if he would be in (the movie), and he said 'Yeah, I could do that,'

Luis Walter Alvarez

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Liane Balaban

I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Anderson Cooper

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Mike Dowd

It's exactly how I would have drawn it up.

Dave Lieberman

They were like, great, now look, ... I was always drawn to the kitchen.

Robert Hartwig

It's the price of paradise, ... People are drawn to landscapes.

Keith Wyness

They are probably the toughest of the sides we could have drawn but you have to take what you are given,

Kim Rupert

It's a done deal. We're looking for a fairly long, drawn out Senate trial.

Bryan Larrison

(Athens) played us well, and everyone else average. (Athens) tied Newark (1-all Dec. 10) and Pickerington (3-all Nov. 11). For some reason, we've drawn them on a Friday and they've struggled the rest of the weekend.

Michael Vick

It wasn't how it was drawn up. I had to make some extra moves. ... Tried to make some magic.

Nikola Tesla

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Gus Sant

There's always been a suspicion that he didn't write his material because he didn't go out of the house. So since nobody ever met him, they would say that.

John Bush

People don't know about radiation. And there's so much radioactive material being transported each day.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Robert H. Connelly

We are going to give material support to Angola to put an end to this war,

Robert Menzies

There is something about being the subject of the Queen which distinguishes you in a material way from other people

Daniel Fried

is not a price for the right to have a base, it is a payment for material services provided by the Uzbek side.

Andrei Platonov

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Ruth Buzzi

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Teyana Taylor

When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.

Joel Madden

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

Jessica Lowndes

There's just so many things I wanna do. At the end of the day, I wanna be happy.

Mystikal

Lil Wayne'll make you wanna jump up, get three jobs, write a song, and do a movie!

Nikki Sixx

You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

David Sanborn

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

Caroline Rhea

I always wanted to film 'Biggest Loser' in Hawaii. We could call it, 'Come on I wanna weigh you.'

Toba Beta

Fanatics don't wanna see anything from another standpoints.

Eve

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.