Argyroxiphium Quotes & Sayings

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. — Peter Jackson

I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. — Jim Crace

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer! — Paz Vega

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best. — Rafael Benitez

He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.'
'Ah, no,' said the King. 'It's only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love. — Heather Dixon

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance when, on the evening before the talks were scheduled to begin, Saddam Hussein announced that the independent state of Kuwait had, by virtue of a massive deployment of military force, become a part of Iraq. We were not to know that this act - and the name Saddam Hussein - would dominate international politics for the next decade and more, but it was still possible to witness something extraordinary: the sight of Mrs. Thatcher publicly inserting quantities of lead into George Bush's pencil. The spattering quill of a Ralph Steadman would be necessary to do justice to such a macabre yet impressive scene. — Christopher Hitchens

I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades. — Rick Riordan

I studied history in college, and I've always enjoyed reading, especially political biographies, and I can state that in all my studies and all my experiences, I have come across just one truly honest politician: my great-grandfather, William Eichner. ... According to my grandmother, when he was elected to the General Assembly, he stopped going to religious services and never set foot in a church during his two terms in office, stating, "You can't serve God and politics at the same time". — John W. Hartmann

I set off, off to kill the man I loved. — Richelle Mead

Words cannot express love. Only thoughts of love born in silence can do that. — Debasish Mridha

And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear? — William Allen Butler