Amherstonians Quotes & Sayings

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. — Edith Head

He handed me a rope and it was up to me whether I would climb it or use it to hang myself. — Amy Poehler

At first glance, this seems an improbable scenario due to both the Martians' and Emily Dickinson's dispositions. Dickinson was a recluse who didn't meet anybody, preferring to hide upstairs when neighbors came to call and to float notes down on them.14 Various theories have been advanced for her self-imposed hermitude, including Bright's Disease, an unhappy love affair, eye trouble, and bad skin. T. L. Mensa suggests the simpler theory that all the rest of the Amherstonians were morons.15 None of these explanations would have made it likely that she would like Martians any better than Amherstates, and there is the added difficulty that, having died in 1886, she would also have been badly decomposed. — Connie Willis

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning — Nostradamus

One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I've been acting since the age of seven, on and off, just doing little parts and things. I've always been very keen to stay in school. — Anna Popplewell

The great monotheistic faiths declare, in full view of the apparently contrary evidence, that the present world of space, time, and matter always was and still is the good creation of a good God. — N. T. Wright

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it — Bob Dylan

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. — Zubin Mehta

My brother Albus wanted a lot of — J.K. Rowling

You have to look for the little mercies, the small kindnesses and good that come from the terrible. — Heather Gudenkauf

Paper qualification is no longer enough in today's competitive society. You need skills that people will pay for. — Emi Iyalla