Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Spurgeon

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Charles Spurgeon

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

Alan Watts

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Alan Watts

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

Alan Watts

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

Alan Jackson

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

Alan Blinder

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Al Pacino

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

Akira Kurosawa

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.

We want to show our firefighters what they mean to us, and working to give back to them in any way we possibly can.

Chris Cleave

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

Chris Cleave

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

Chris Cleave

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

Chris Colfer

Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.

Chogyam Trungpa

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

Chogyam Trungpa

By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

Chogyam Trungpa

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners...

Chip Kelly

Profiles mean nothing. You could say, 'I want this,' but then it's not out there.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

China Mieville

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

China Mieville

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters.

Edith Wharton

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Eddie Izzard

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Earl Warren

To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Eartha Kitt

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected

Eartha Kitt

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

David Rockefeller

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

David Riesman

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

David Hockney

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

David Hockney

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.