Akenside Press Quotes & Sayings

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction. — John Galliano

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I am not a Bible-believing Christian in the fullest sense simply by believing the right doctrines, but as I live in practice in this supernatural world. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:
and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on
so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean? — Marcus Sedgwick

Geographically, Jess's backside was a mountain range. The sun rose over it -eventually. Huge birds of prey nested on its craggy heights and hunted in its shadows. It wouldn't have been so bad if Jess's bum had been balanced by a nice big bosom. Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, and Serena Williams were designed with this pleasing sense of balance. But geographically, Jess's boobs could not balance her bum at all. Her chest was the kind of featureless plain upon which airports are constructed. — Sue Limb

two known humans who can legitimately be called "immortals. — Thomas Horn

Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless. — Thomas Hardy

I'm a little angry in life. — Vincent Cassel

You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word. — Bill Courtney

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself. — Joe Dempsie

She followed slowly, taking a long time,
As though there were some obstacles in the way;
And yet: as though, once it was overcome,
She would be beyond all walking, and would fly. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now. — Ben Carson