Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Storman

This is turning into a crusade. You're seeing the grass-roots movement that got Harold Washington elected. ... The numbers are going to go up. You're going to have more troops on the street.

Tom Stoppard

As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,

Tony Gwynn

Harold is the Pied Piper of Little League baseball,

Rachel Joyce

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

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.

Kate Fisher

Maureen and I started weeping when we saw the Rodrigo boots. We're the criers in the bunch, and pretty soon everyone had tears in her eyes.

Dave Uhrich

A lot of track meets aren't scored. Going in, we didn't know that it was going to be a scored met, and we didn't plan on taking this meet that seriously. But we did end up doing well.

Jorma Kaukonen

That's where the rubber meets the road. You get sharper when you have to play for someone else, not just for yourself.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Armentrout

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

John Bolton

We don't think it meets the standards set by the secretary general.

Lisa Goehle

There's more to this story than meets the eye.

Steve Liddle

There's more to him than meets the eye. Most definitely.

Steve Whittington

On paper we were not better than they were. But you don't win meets on paper.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Bernard Cornwell

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

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.

Ryan Berger

It's a way for us to save money.

Michael Chitwood

The theory is, you're there to save a life,

Danny Smith

Pretty much the sprinkler system saved the building.

Bill Glasson

save my back, my arms, my shoulder ? things I've had worked on.

O. J. Simpson

There will be some upfront costs. But in the end, it will save money.

Nancy Kerrigan

I've spent $50 and probably saved hundreds of dollars,

Earl Lambert

It would have saved a lot of work going back and setting up documentation of those storm preparation costs.

Jane Goodall

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

Bob Watson

What we're going to do is save a roster spot for him. He can't make up his mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth McGovern

I have a terrible sense of direction.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Simon Schama

A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Marlon Byrd

It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.

Bob Cook

It was a terrible day, ... We just wanted to get off the course.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Mark Twain

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Frank Robinson

With us right now, you can give us 20 walks and it'll still be a 2-1 or 3-2 game.

Ben Feldman

When you walk out, the money walks in

Jane Austen

I walk: I prefer walking.

Brandon Boyd

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Ben Harper

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

Deepak Chopra

Walk with those seeking truth...

Anita Diament

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

Curtis Jackson

If I'm focused while I'm strokin I could change how you walk

Suzanne Collins

Some walks you have to take alone.