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.

Wayne Wonder

Wayne Wonder is a down-to-earth type of person, so people can always approach me. They are not scared to say, 'Yo Wayne! How are you doing?'

Bryant Haskins

We always encourage patients to consult with their doctors to determine the best approach to treating any health problem.

Charles Kennedy

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

Mike Greene

The point is not to lecture. We approach this from the premise that U.S.-China relations are good and we're committed to making them better.

Michael Stern

We are pleased to be able to work so closely with Brian, his team of trainers and coaches, and especially the elite athletes that look to TEST Sports Clubs to improve their performance. Our cutting-edge approach to athlete nutrition matches is a perfect complement to TESTs approach of using science and creativity to open new horizons for elite athletes.

Lawrence Byrd

We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way we do business.

John Kilduff

We are at levels that in the past several years had caused gasoline prices to approach the $1.70-type national average record levels.

Lee Bermejo

As much as I enjoy seeing other guys do the superhero approach to the Batman universe, personally my own vision falls a bit left of center.

Nick Woodman

Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

David Hilbert

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

August Strindberg

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

Bill Ward

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Wenonah Hauter

We strongly support efforts to make shellfish safe for consumers, but irradiation clearly is not the answer. The FDA is just throwing one problem on top of another - and this is becoming an illogical pattern.

Ryan MacMurchy

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

Ernie Els

Where it used to be kind of the most fun of all the majors, it's becoming the hardest one now. Over four days of competition, it's going to narrow the field dramatically. You will be doing good to break par on the back nine.

Liya Kebede

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Luis von Ahn

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Katie Leclerc

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Jim McCarthy

When we had that warm weather in January, we knew we were going to be in trouble.

Raquel Turnbow

When we got to the bars, we knew we had to step it up.

Doug Baggett

When we got down 10 or 12, I knew we were in trouble.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Jill Lepore

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Sara Shepard

Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.

Abdul Kalam

Science leads to development of technologies. Availability of technologies leads to products.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Darren Dopp

We welcome the review. Our unit leads the nation in recoveries, has in 2004 and will in 2005. Recoveries are up 700 percent under Mr. Spitzer.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Graham Smith

People want a say in who leads them.

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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I literally married him.

Bipasha Basu

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Elizabeth Moon

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Ron Fehr

There's a lot more soldiers that are married than single.

Jeff Foxworthy

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks...but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Tom Aldredge

I've been married for 52 years, ... I realize it more as the years go on ? that's all that's important. Everything else I can work around, I can sacrifice. But that relationship matters.

Jane Fonda

I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway

Jason Biggs

I'm married. I'm not attracted to any other woman, ever.

George Voinovich

They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it.

Kara Carney

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Jeffrey Benjamin

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

Ken Roberts

What is measured improves, and what isn't measured doesn't improve. It's an incentive. Providers don't want to be at 85 percent when their neighbors are higher.

Michael Hawley

Turns out that no one has measured the wind speed at the summit,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Ted White

The suspects had no idea who they were trying to rob.

Doug Tobin

The victim and the suspect did not know each other. The victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Robyn Regehr

I don't know if we were waiting around for the usual suspects to try and get us going or what.

Stephanie Spell

I don't think we ever called him a suspect in those murders.

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.