Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Horowitz

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

Menzies Campbell

Today we salute Charles and wish him well and look forward to him returning to the front line.

There have been 40-something (U.S.) presidents overall, and they've all had different ways of doing the job. Me, Will and Charles are the same way. There's no such thing as a prototypical defensive end. There doesn't have to be.

But (Prince) Charles is leaving for India next week so she had to get back.

Bob Peterson

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.

Anthony Holden

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.

Joseph Jarman

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.

Elliott Carter

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.

Charles Kennedy

We congratulate Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and we wish them all future happiness.

With his excitement, energy and enthusiasm, Charles is a good spark for us.

Kit Harington

My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.

College of Charleston is a really good team. They are always tough.

Larry Johnson

Of course, they don't have (defensive back) Charles Woodson and that's one of the big things.

Normally, Charles (Bronson) has been doing that, but Brandon stepped up and did a great job. He got a little confidence going and he did a great job. They (Navarro) were doing such a great job of pressuring our wings that we had to get some inside relief to the pressure.

Despite his enormous success, artistically and financially, Ray Charles was a humble man,

Mads Mikkelsen

I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

Nick Hardwick

It was very distressing to see how completely relaxed and normal Jean Charles appeared, particularly in the light of statements made immediately after his death,

Mike Williams

At times, we were all big-time guys. We play for each other now. It's not about being selfish. If Roy does well, it reflects our group. If I'm in the slot and see Charles on the outside, I need to run my clear-out as hard as I can because it will help him on his route. We just have to work for each other.

Back in February, I had taken Elsie to Charleston to see a specialist. The doctor told her he would put her on the list for a (kidney) transplant, but he also told her to expect she would be on the list for 3 to 6 years.

Charles Taylor

As long as this stigma exists, that Charles Taylor is supposed to be Attila the Hun, nothing is going to come here. And now it's not just about me, it's about this country living.

This is, for us, as good as it gets. Prince Charles has pretty much for 20-plus years embraced the idea of sustainability.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

As a society, we have become completely disconnected from where our food comes from. Prince Charles acknowledges and understands and embraces sustainable agriculture.

Rowan Williams

I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step.

Dwayne Hickman

Currently my original oils are being sold by The Charles Hecht Galleries in La Jolla, California.

Every city has something unique that something nice could work out. This is something that is not in town right now, this type of structure or this type of theme. I am really going for a Charleston look in a small town.

We talked to a mason from Charleston and people in Columbia, but, to the person, we have used local people for all the work.

Per Petterson

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere.

At the time the Lockwood Collection was donated, ... Charles Abbott, then the university's library director, called it 'a princely gift,' and 'the nucleus, around which may grow a new library, dedicated to learning and to the culture that it seeks to inspire.'

Daniel Woodrell

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.

(In Charles Wright's game Thursday), their top three guys scored 49 points, and today we held them to 23.

Charles Dickens

In keeping the world of Charles Dickens alive, ... what I do on the stage is one thing. It's afterward that's the most special. I love to talk about Charles Dickens and hear about people's questions, or their memories of a special time or a family tradition of listening to 'A Christmas Carol.'