Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Charlie Munger

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Bettie Page

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

Audrey Tautou

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

Ashley Tisdale

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

Larry Wall

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Eva Zeisel

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Cassandra Clare

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

George Santayana

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Benjamin Franklin

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Inge de Bruijn

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Marco Basten

The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.

Wanda Jackson

Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.

Gail Carriger

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Darby Stanchfield

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Lars Lagerback

I think we had a very good game, playing on this level equal with the Dutch team. It was a really good match and it could have gone either way.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Oscar Wilde

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Euclid

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

Keith Giffen

He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it.