Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Klise

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.

Duke Snider

He was a very charming man, ... It was a pleasure to have him in our school district.

Andrew Motion

He was a man of immense charm, affability and kindness with no side to him.

He was very understanding, ... He was very kind. He was very charming.

He was troubled, but he was a beautiful kid with an infectious spirit and a charming smile. People instantly liked him.

Frederick Forsyth

He was the first of the realists, apart from being a very charming man and he was what you'd call a good egg.

He is a very likeable, charming billionaire. He's just your average, very successful, humble businessman.

Dayton Moore

He has the charm that people want to be around. No matter what your physical ability is, unless you didn't have that advanced ability and advanced knowledge of the game, you can't advance quickly.

Maureen Dowd

He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance, Harper's irony, Hud's disdain.

Charles Baudelaire

Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend. It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.

John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Leonard Maltin

He's got it all. He's got charm, he's got looks, he's got brains, he's got a conscience. He has everything any movie star could want to have, any director or producer, and then some.

He's got to charm the pants off the delegates. That would help. The question is: How does he do it?

Bryan?s people skills have really, really improved. He?s got a lot of charm and he?s made some very good friends, influential friends and those people help grow you also.

Burgoyne, he had style, a certain charisma, and charm and humor about him.

Loretta Young

I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

Tracy Morgan

I have my Lucky Charms in the morning, and I feel magical.

Bobby Miller

I find it comical that people who live from paycheck to paycheck laugh at me when I mention an angel named Zabar, my guardian angel. I find it absolutely amazing that a person can say their life is boring and that they're unhappy. Then make fun of my beliefs when I have lived a charmed life for almost 70 years and cannot remember wanting or needing anything in vain.

James Woods

Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk? It's part of the charm of this entire event.

Louis MacNeice

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

Gavin Henson

My mum calls Gavin Prince Charming and he's just perfect. He's laid back, patient, and he's lush. He's gorgeous and a real sweetheart. It's perfect,

George Eliot

Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the

It bounced around the rim three times, probably hit every part of the rim and then went in. This time we just had the lucky charms in our favor.

Keith Murray

I think the charm for this deal is that this particular segment of the market is growing at such a high rate. That's where the growth is.

Norman Rockwell

Lady Bird Johnson had that extra-special Southern charm that you just can't resist. Mrs. Goldwater was charming, too. And she was the smart one. She really didn't want to be the First Lady at all. And she got her wish.

Mark Ruffalo

I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.

George Martin

I was asked to do score by the Director, who was a charming Canadian, a really nice guy, George Dunning was his name. He's dead now, unfortunately.

I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.

Jim Calhoun

I think it's the very charm of exactly what this tournament is about and I truly believe that. We played Gonzaga in 1999 and everybody in Phoenix was attached to them. That's a very natural thing.

Peter Capaldi

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

Michelle Huneven

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Jim Calhoun

I think that's the charm of what this tournament is about.