Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Minnillo

It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.

Petra Haden

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Niels Christensen

We have had disappointing data in the United States this week and in the euro zone we have had comforting news. If we get a weak GDP number no one would want to hold onto long dollar positions next week.

Barry Hyman

Today's market is comforting in that it's back a bit, but it just doesn't have the feel of yesterday having made a bottom.

Carl Sagan

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Don Wallace

We are lucky to have two strong lawmakers like Simpson and Peterson looking out for America's sugar producers and the policy on which they depend. Some sugar policy opponents want to put sugar farmers out of business, and it's comforting to know that our elected representatives will not let that happen.

Dean Koontz

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

Bill Watterson

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)

Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.

David Boothe

We need to be pro-children and pro-literacy of all kinds. Embrace, respect, and value everybody's tastes and everybody's choices. When you take away elitism and judgment, such good things happen.

Martha Beck

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Walter Benjamin

My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

Dear Abbey

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

Alan Titchmarsh

I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

Charlotte Bronte

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

Charlie Chaplin

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charles Dickens

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

Charles Dickens

There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

Alan Watts

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.