Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Marshall

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.

Matthew Pearl

Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

Misty May

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Blaise Pascal

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Blaise Pascal

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Kris Reyes

This proposal, as a locally owned amusement park, would make it very difficult to compete with corporate-owned amusement parks in Northern California because the playing field wouldn't be level.

Glynis Johns

Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon, the US and French Opens are to tennis and the Masters, U.S. British Open and PGA championship are to golf.

Tom Baker

ordinary British folk: what is them, who do they and why?

Lee Raymond

Our movie also received offers from French, British and Japanese distribution companies.

Julian Glover

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Mick Fleetwood

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Shinya Yamada

Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.

Shinya Yamada

Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass, and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.

Jeremy Spencer

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Peter Selley

Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event.

Jacques Chirac

Our relationship is going to be long and no doubt fruitful. As far as our views on the France-German relationship and the demands of European construction are concerned, we were in complete agreement,

Eric Wicks

Patterson tries to complete the pass instead of running the ball. So I was depending on him to throw the pass. It was a big read.

Michael McKean

Part of it is what it's always been -- the vicarious thrill of seeing people who are much richer and more famous live lives that are wonderful, even if they are complete fakes. I think people simultaneously worship and despise celebrities.

Rachel Miner

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

Larry Ellison

Oracle applications are ideally suited for rapid implementations because our e-business suite is complete and integrated -- no application customizations are required,

Robert Mayer

Some of the questions to determine you are who you say you are make it tedious to complete. The program also has crashed on some consumers before they could complete it.

Michael Leavitt

Our preparations are not yet complete nor are they adequate,

Stephen Jones

Our goal is to complete it (jury selection) sometime this month, to start evidence and opening statements by the end of the month -- that's the judge's goal and we are all working toward that.

Paul Adams

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.

Mark Fabiani

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

John Bowen

Our position is that as a matter of law it's approved. The county would have to notify us if they disagree with that.

John Benedetto

Pasco County football has gotten a lot better and you better be prepared to play well week to week or you're going to get knocked off.

Sue Tucker

Our only option is to refer people to one of the shelters in Dane County -- or to send them up to a shelter in Stevens Point. We have no place, else, to put people.

John Walsh

Sussex County is suffering maybe more than most. Kent County is having its problems. ... High gasoline prices, highway congestion, people in manufactured homes are dealing with unconscionable rental increases. Most of this can be laid at the Legislature's doorstep.

Rick Howard

Survive and move on. that's what they tell when you get to the playoffs. That's what we did (Friday). Hart County played hard and fought the entire game.

Gary Gray

Our peach crop in Chilton County in a good year is probably worth in the neighborhood of $10 million, and local growers have reported a 30-percent increase in yields as the result of information they got from the meeting. This is a very important meeting for us.

Doug Warren

Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).

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.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Josh Pool

Our line did a lot of work this week. We ran the plays over and over again. (David) English had a really good game. Our linemen really stepped it up.

Rachel Ward

People in Hollywood, they're looking for pretty girls, and if you take it seriously enough and work hard enough, you get the Guernsey.

Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

Jimmy Vasser

Outside of the car, she's English and very proper, ... But inside the car, she's forceful. She doesn't sit and wait. She goes after it.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Vince Suriano

We played hard, but we were haunted by the big play.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Ariel Pink

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Bruce Udvari

Serves haunted us. You give up 10 points to any team and that's not good. I have to give the kids credit. They stuck in there.

Ted Ritter

It haunted him for the rest of his life. And he took it to his grave.

Bret Ellis

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

Ron Rash

I've always been haunted that he might have been.

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Paul Dergarabedian

I think the thought is that this movie would have opened bigger, because it's 'King Kong' and it's Peter Jackson.

Shigeru Yoshida

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rahul Dravid

He is not an option. We have two specialist openers and I have also opened and done well.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Nigel Hamilton

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Winfried Vahland

When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.

Richard Wing

Parking in particular is a problem for us at the south campus.

Bob Hartwig

Parking (at South Medford) is an issue, especially with the stadium there.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Evelyn Smith

Our street has become a parking lot. That's what it is.

Rick Moore

People who try to do the right thing and not park their RVs in the street have very little alternatives within the city.

Pablo Mastroeni

I think the misconception is that you play a new team, a new franchise, and you think it's going to be a walk in the park when they have nothing to shoot for,

Andrew Spano

It is one of the safest parks in the world.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Tim Smith

I?d like to get this person ID?d. I want to find out what they were doing in a parking garage.

Gary Lewis

Most of the riders up there are locals,

Leslie Peterson

We live together. We ride together. It's our whole life.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Kunda Dixit

He really wants to ride it out. It may take some time (for him to go).

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Edgar Prado

He loped a little when he made the lead. I had to ride him at the end, but I wasn't all over him.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Jay Gibbons

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.