Allysun Fleming Quotes & Sayings

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. — Marcus Aurelius

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler. — Kevin Focke

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done. — Vince Cable

The Greatest Generation?
They tell me I am a member of the greatest generation. That's because I saw combat duty as a bombardier in World War 11. But I refuse to celebrate "the greatest generation" because in so doing we are celebrating courage and sacrifice in the cause of war. And we are miseducating the young to believe that military heroism is the noblest form of heroism, when it should be remembered only as the tragic accompaniment of horrendous policies driven by power and profit. The current infatuation with World War 11 prepares us
innocently on the part of some, deliberately on the part of others
for more war, more military adventures, more attempts to emulate the military heroes of the past. — Howard Zinn

Bitterness is a paralytic.
Love is a much more serious motivator. — Arthur Conan Doyle

These days you can't see who's in cahoots,
Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits. — Chuck D

We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive (by the limitless expansion of the ego, by emotive submersion) and impoverished (by the codes on which love diminishes and levels it). — Roland Barthes

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. — Gloria Estefan

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at — Agona Apell

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake ... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! — Daniel Day-Lewis

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed. — Curtis Carlson

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility. — James Levine

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs. — Greg Brown