Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

Charles Spurgeon

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Ang Lee

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Diane Wakoski

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...

Catherine Drinker Bowen

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Cary Grant

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Janis Joplin

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Aaron Swartz

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Darren Shan

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Carolina Herrera

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Elie Wiesel

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

Jane Austen

I can always live by my pen.

Delia Ephron

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

Andrea Corr

I don't really live by plans.

Mike Brady

Exact words are hard to live by.

Pliny the Elder

We live by reposing trust in each other.

John Cage

...we make our lives by what we love.

John Fowles

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

Sylvia Plath

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Robert Kiyosaki

You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.