Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Cisneros

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

Christian Serratos

I have a lot of 'Twilight' gear. I love the hoodies that say 'vampires' and 'werewolves,' but I refuse to get one because I can't choose; I have to have them both. I have the Team Edward T-shirt, but I also have Team Jacob.

George Foreman

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

Kevin Spacey

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

Rod Broadway

We don't know much about Edward Waters. And we can't know for sure how some of our new guys are going to play until they get into a game.

Sarah Harrison

My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K.

David Strathairn

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Chris Jordan

I grew up looking at Edward Weston and Henri Cartier-Bresson,

Mark Gatiss

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Dickens

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

Charles Simmons

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Alan Watts

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Alan Moore

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

David Sedaris

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Dave Barry

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Dave Barry

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Dave Barry

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar..

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

O. Singh

Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.

David Almond

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Josh McDowell

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

Alex Padilla

This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. live of the East.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Roger Bart

Shooting my scenes, I hadn't really even known what I was putting in his medicine,

Tom Suelzle

We stayed in the zone, but the side Norton was on, we would pay more attention.

Carl Pope

Gale Norton was an unpopular symbol of unpopular policies.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Anupam Kher

I don't think that I will say that we are less talented in Bollywood, but our functioning is different. We cater to a different kind of audience.