Appalingly Quotes & Sayings

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything. — Harry Connick Jr.

Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. — Ming-Dao Deng

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense. — Geri Halliwell

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks

Fire comes in all intensities. A hotter tongue of flame can devour another. Surely the hottest can sear a man clean. - UILLEAM ANDRIU MACRIEVE, CHIEFTAIN OF THE NOVA SCOTIA SETTLEMENT OF CLAN MACRIEVE — Kresley Cole

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble. — Maxwell Perkins

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. — Deborah Tannen

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish. — Robert Downey Jr.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope. — Jerome Groopman

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. — Ken Danby

[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many. — Harold Wilson