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Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. -- Thomas Gibson
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay. -- Grace Jones
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -- Lillian Hellman
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. -- Thomas de Quincey
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. -- Kitty Kelley
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. -- Emily Dickinson
I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not. -- Tim Rice
I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax. -- Honor Blackman
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. -- Dolley Madison
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. -- Grace Abbott
I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons. -- Jennifer Grant
My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house. -- Jess Walter
Oh yeah people recognize me, but the craziest thing? I mean I've had the normal autographs... but I had to sign a baby's carriage once. I thought that was weird, so yeah, I guess that's the craziest thing. -- Terrence J
Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale. -- Marie Rutkoski
I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better. -- Dario Fo
Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. -- William Dampier
I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London. -- Jane Green
Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go. -- Steve Truglia
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving. -- Walter Murch
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. -- Jane Smiley
The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar. -- Nina Bawden
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. -- Lynne Truss
As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know. -- Leslie Moonves
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. -- J. C. Ryle
My feet is my only carriage. -- Bob Marley
The separate parts make no carriage. -- Laozi
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
While in a crowded underground carriage, scream 'It's happening again! -- Rich Fulcher
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. -- Publilius Syrus
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah. -- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. -- Honore de Balzac
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner. -- Ambrose Bierce
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other. -- John Wooden
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows. -- Ivan Panin
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress. -- Cassandra Clare
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. -- Publilius Syrus
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses. -- Ted Nelson
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness. -- Henry James
Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse. -- Emmett Shear
I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me. -- Charles Darwin
We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. -- John Winthrop
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion. -- Dervla Murphy
He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man. -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship. -- Cassandra Clare
The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike. -- Josh Billings
The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage. -- Dean Martin
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other. -- Frank Sinatra
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say. -- George Washington
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died. -- Clive Sinclair
I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not. -- Tim Rice
It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary. -- Lisa M. Prysock
An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred -- Robert Frost
Look back. Look back at me." Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street. -- Scott Lynch
When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a magical world where every aspiration becomes a conquest. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books -- Nina Kuscsik
Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!" -- John Waters
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to. -- Josh Billings
But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride. -- Gail Carriger
I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage. -- Morgan Freeman
Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk. -- Joseph de Maistre
She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body. -- Alice Sebold
I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all. -- Elizabeth Gilbert

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