7rar Quotes & Sayings

One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis. — Emily Perkins

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations. — Sarah Churchwell

It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further. — John Shirley

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time. — Russell D. Moore

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. — Victor Hugo

In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is — William Wordsworth

Wild things are made from human histories. — Helen Macdonald

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. — Jessica Hagedorn

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms. — James Taylor

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves? — Nhat Hanh

I don't care what it takes. I'm tired of being pretty and nice ... I want to DO something. — Brandon Sanderson

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. — Doris Janzen Longacre

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least. — Ron Atkinson