Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

Deb Caletti

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Kurt Vonnegut

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Bill Walton

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Benjamin Franklin

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Bo Sanchez

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

Charles Krauthammer

Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

Janet Jackson

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

Booker T. Washington

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Charles Dickens

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Charles Dickens

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

Charles Dickens

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Charles Soule

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Charles Stross

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

Charles Stross

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Charles Stross

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

John Tanner

It's okay to go if you know where you are going.

Sarah Alexander

Is it okay to shoplift from a store that's doing well? It's called piracy, but the reality is that it's nothing more than theft.

Elizabeth Pisani

I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.

Bill Hicks

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

Richard Keller

We are okay with what Epson is doing.

Mark Pellegrino

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

Frank Beamer

There's still some concern, but we feel like he'll be okay for Saturday.

Andrea Gibson

Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.

Steve Earle

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.