Adoria Maxberry Quotes & Sayings

The pause in conversation when you're about to introduce someone but you've forgotten their name. There's a word for it. In Scotland, it's called a tartle. — Robyn Schneider

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win ... by big margins. — Simone Elkeles

Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?" — Frank Carson

We think of mortality so little these days ...
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be ... — Tana French

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning. — Young Buck

When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that. — Amartya Sen