Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trinny Woodall

I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.

Rabih Alameddine

When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

C. C. H. Pounder

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Bruce Cheney

Like everybody else, I enjoy my privacy and I don't want it invaded. At the same time, I enjoy breathing fairly regularly, and I don't want, for the sake of having to take my shoes off when I'm boarding a plane, to die because I got fussy about my shoes,

Marie-Chantal Claire

I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.

Jared Harris

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

Deirdre O'Kane

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

Belinda Stewart-Wilson

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

Ella Eyre

I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'

Charles de Lint

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Charles Caleb Colton

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Byron Katie

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Arthur Conan Doyle

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

Davy Cowie

This project has just grown and grown. First the land and then the house. There's never a dull moment, we're always learning something new.

Jan Karon

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

Bruno Schulz

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Benjamin Hoff

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

Tina Brown

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Carlos Castaneda

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

Mike James

We have to get that feeling that we have when we're down 20 and take that into the start of the game. We can't be nonchalant.

Ville Nieminen

We have a special feeling in the locker room.

Agnetha Faltskog

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Agnes Varda

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

Alan Sugar

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .

Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Charles Dickens

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

John Keats

Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.

John Patrick Shanley

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.

Sergey Lavrov

must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

C. S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Diane Setterfield

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Christian Church

We are here to remember just how special they were to us,

Jason Calacanis

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Kent Mercker

You don't even have to wash my uniform pants.

Chris Graveline

Who can think of a person who has disgraced this uniform more?

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Christopher Wren

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Lorrie Fair

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

Henry Mancini

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

George W. Bush

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

Jack L. Chalker

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.