Adson Quotes & Sayings

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. — David Frum

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles - a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species. — John Steinbeck

You are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying — Ikechukwu Joseph

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. — Edith Evans

Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. — Kristina McMorris

Too many people go to university. — Michael Gove

Red is much nicer than blue. — Claire King

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk. — Mark Sanborn

She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. — Paulo Coelho

All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall think - in point of fact, we always do choose - and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have — Emmet Fox

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing. — Manute Bol

A writer writes alone in a room with no distractions. The minute he's distracted he loses the cathedral in which he must perform, which is himself. — Shane Solerno

It is doubtful whether Mrs Bennet missed the company of her second daughter, but her husband certainly did. Elizabeth had always been his favourite child. — P.D. James

In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch. — Jonas Salk

What a pair of lungs! — Denis Johnson