300 Film Famous Quotes & Sayings

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results. — Bernard Crick

I've entered the looney bin," I told another unwitting customer, this one female.
"It's always like that around here," the customer replied. "That's why I come, it's like walking into a sitcom that could only air on HBO. — Kristen Ashely

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. — Pam Grier

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing. — Michelle Bachelet

The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they themselves thought in terms of hundreds or at the most a few thousands. It would be well over a century until a Greece, unified under Alexander the Great, would have to tackle the problems of Empire. — Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state. — Elfriede Jelinek

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. — George Eliot

All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire. — Ameen Rihani

If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side. — Rene Descartes

Three hundred pages of cotton-soft parchment, bound up with a green ribbon. Her writing gushed in watery ripples over the pages, penmanship that called to mind the maddest intricate Belgian lace. Wrought on a pin's head but stretching for miles if unraveled. — Lyndsay Faye

Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health. — Joel Salatin

Men don't become worth your while until they're in their thirties." ...
"Well, it's not automatic with all men, you know." ...
"With women, of course, it's different. Women are born interesting. — Natasha Mostert

It was precisely because her songs were dragged up out of her soul that they were so powerful and passionate. The ones that went into "Back to Black" were about the deepest emotions. And she went through hell to make it. — Mitch Winehouse