Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

Aaron Swartz

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Clarence Fountain

We were blind, so everybody was dark to us,

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Alan Thicke

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Alan Titchmarsh

I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Charles de Lint

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

Todd Galloway

We have to get over what happened and understand that we have something to play for. We just have to forget about it.

Charlotte Bronte

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Tove Jansson

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

David Morrissey

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Dave Barry

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

Buddy Guy

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

Cesare Lombroso

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Jane Addams

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Carol Vorderman

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

Carlos Mencia

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

C. S. Lewis

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Steve Squyres

We have no idea yet how widespread Home Plate-like material may be. We have not seen anything like this before, but it doesn't mean there isn't more stuff out there.

Robin Cook

We want peace, but it must be a peace that makes Kosovo safe for the refugees to go home

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

Alan Shearer

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Alan K. Simpson

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Jane Austen

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

China Mieville

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

Charlotte Church

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Maajid Nawaz

During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Britney Spears

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Justin Chadwick

Mandela was true to himself, to his people and his principles. He sacrificed everything because he was prepared to be true to his ideals. You can relate to him whether you come from Manchester or Soweto.

Sven Eriksson

From what I have read and heard, it could be that Owen is going to Manchester United.

Brian O'Driscoll

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

Rafael Benitez

I went to Manchester United for one week to watch them train,

Alex Ferguson

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

Noel Gallagher

The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here

Gordon Jago

Then, when some of these other high-quality teams saw that Real and Manchester United were coming, they all wanted to be involved, too.

Lucy Powell

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

Roy Keane

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Nick Price

We've seen this trend now, and my hat's off to her, ... reeks of publicity.

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us.

Maria Rooth

We've seen 'Miracle' so many times. We said (Thursday) we were going to make a new miracle.

Lovie Smith

We've seen him (Hutchinson) all through training camp, so we really want to get a look at the other guys.

Patrice Duker

We've seen gyms go in as anchors. We've seen day spas go in.

Kim Cattrall

I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.

Jessalyn Gilsig

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

Charlotte Bronte

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

Bret Harte

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Bret Easton Ellis

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Jandy Nelson

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Chogyam Trungpa

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

China Mieville

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

Charlaine Harris

My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

Music fathoms the sky.

Edmund Burke

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Carol Shields

And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

Carlos Castaneda

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

C. S. Lewis

Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

C. S. Lewis

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

C. S. Lewis

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Manny Acta

We have so many stars that the toughest part is getting our roster down to 30 players.

Aaron Sorkin

There are no Asian movie stars

Alan Sillitoe

Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

Alan Ladd

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

I. Stone

We're here to stay and see this thing through.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Christian Bale

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.