Anglicise Quotes & Sayings

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. — Kin Hubbard

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. — Carlos Castaneda

I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie. — Philippe Petit

Perhaps there is a predetermined time for each person's life, and we should be happy for the time we had. — Courtney Sheinmel

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems. — Jim Hunt

By choosing to declare what's good and evil, you seek to determine your own destiny. — Wm. Paul Young

I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile. — Chuck Palahniuk

In brief, it is now clear that Europe's religious dedication to rules is nothing but a veil under which the strong make up the rules as they go along to suit their own political agenda. Perhaps that would be fine if the said agenda was not quick-marching Europe and the global economy into an economic, political and moral morass. — Yanis Varoufakis

The body remembers what your mind forgets. — Martha Manning

The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a new nation literally out of any old nation that comes along. In a word, what is unique is not America but what is called Americanisation. We understand nothing till we understand the amazing ambition to Americanise the Kamskatkan and the Hairy Ainu. We are not trying to Anglicise thousand of French cooks or Italian organ-grinders. France is not trying to Gallicise thousands of English trippers or German prisoners of war. America is the only place in the world where this process, healthy or unhealthy, possible or impossible, is going on. And the process, as I have pointed out, is not internationalization. It would be truer to say it is the nationalization of the internationalized. It is making a home out of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles. — G.K. Chesterton

She had heard the panspermia theory before but didn't know its name. The theory that a meteorite splashed into the primordial soup, bringing the first seeds of microbial life to earth. — Dan Brown