Altmeyers Quotes & Sayings

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing. — Sonu Nigam

She hit him. Hard. Right in the face ...
"Holy shit," said Quinn. "Would it be wrong if I applaud? — Brigid Kemmerer

Simon blurted, "Can I put the dead hand in my blood?"
"May I put the dead hand in my blood," Adele corrected. "Yes, go ahead. — Clay Griffith

The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical. — John Cage

The psyche questionnaire asks me to list the things I dislike. Why don't they just use the word, hate? Why is everyone so afraid to admit they hate something? I write Advil, and then add Athens, Afghanistan and the U.S. Army. "In conclusion, I hate a lot of things that begin with the letter A," I write in the space provided. — Katherine Owen

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory. — Orlando Figes

The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions. — Orison Swett Marden

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific. — James Patterson

You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there. — Ron Suskind

You make different colors by combining those colors that already exist. — Herbie Hancock

Talking to you is one of my favorite things to do."
"Top 10?" she asked.
"Top 5 at least," he said with a wink. — Jennifer E. Smith

I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth. — J. Lynn