Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Caleb Colton

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

Michael Todd

We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.

Carolyn Maloney

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Taissa Farmiga

The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

Taissa Farmiga

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

Meaghan Rath

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

Brandon Gray

The most successful horror pictures play mostly to females.

Megan Charpentier

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

David Warner

I've been in horror movies, I've been in silly comedies. Actually did a musical once.

Jane Goldman

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.