Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

Charles Dickens

To a young heart everything is fun.

Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Charles Dickens

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Dick Jackson

We want to take people on an adventure but not someplace they're not comfortable going. This allows people to get to some very interesting terrain without a huge amount of uphill.

Chris Cole

Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

Chris Claremont

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

Beatrice Wood

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Beatrix Potter

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

Bear Grylls

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

Bear Grylls

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Bear Grylls

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

Audrey Tautou

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Ashley Wagner

I love hanging out with friends and family.

Cameron Diaz

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Janet Jackson

I'm shy, although I'm not shy with my friends and family.

Barbara Bush

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

Amy Grant

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Suze Orman

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

Rory McIlroy

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

Regina Brett

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.