Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saintsbury

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

Simon Schama

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.

Goldwin Smith

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Ronald Frame

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

Douglas Adams

One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Randy Lambert

Bo just shot the dickens out of it.

Claire Tomalin

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

Claire Tomalin

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Pat Robertson

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation

Nancy Lopez

Paula can't wait to get out of the gate. She's ready to play, so I felt playing her first was important. She has not stopped talking about playing in this event. She's excited. I love it. I want her to get out there and do it.

Marty Hickman

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

Kevin Huck

Our motivation was way up. We felt like we needed to come out and prove ourselves.

Charles Ramsey

Suffice it to say it took a few interviews, but we did get the information we felt was important at the time,

Sarah Parker

Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel.

Rod Argent

Suddenly, and for the first time in all these years, it felt honest and right to include the name 'Zombies' somewhere on the album.

I. Stone

State, repeat. It felt so good. There was, like, five seconds, and I was thinking 'hold the ball.' It felt so good.

Joe Wilhelm

Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot better on Sunday.

Pia Zadora

I was thrilled with the nomination, but I didn't want to go to the ceremony. I hated the idea of sitting there smiling and not winning.

Judy Horacek

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

Rex Bulloch

I sure hated to see him go, not just because I was losing an employee, but because he was like a son. I told him to keep his head down low and come back safe. He's got a job when he returns if he wants it.

Shania Twain

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

Michael Socha

The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.

Jerry Nelson

John Belushi always hated the puppets. He just hated them with a passion.

Travis Niesen

I'm always the most hated player on the road.

Jeff Neely

I loved going back there. I hated that I missed that.

Tim O'Brien

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Alain Wertheimer

I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Annie Besant

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Alison Bechdel

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Warren Cowan

I spoke with him yesterday and he's doing great. He should be out in a day or two.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Reggie Lewis

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Brandon Sing

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today.

David Peterson

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did,

Matt Kuchar

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.