Astian Quotes & Sayings

Each new day on earth is a sacred moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have such a big mouth. — Kelly Hu

When we lose our sense of wonder, what we really lose is our soul. Our lack of wonder is really a lack of love. — Mark Batterson

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does. — David Oyelowo

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them. — Ted Allen

She ran into the early-October afternoon. The light came at a low slant through the oaks across the street, gold and green, and how she loved that light. There was no light in the world like you saw in New England in early fall. — Joe Hill

Ah ken the junk gits bad press, but ah think it's barry. It's easy tae criticize something fae outside, but yuv goat tae experience eveything in life, ken? Thinkay how shitey things would huv been for eveycat if Jim Morrison hudnae droaped acid. He widnae broken oan through tae the other side n aw barry tunes wid be shiter as a result ... it aw disnae goaway on skag:it jist disnae bother ye any mair. — Irvine Welsh

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. — Henry David Thoreau

Nah,' I tell her after a while. 'He is more like a brother, you know?'
The good kind. The kind with the purple teeth. — E.R. Frank

It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer. — Kevin Systrom

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution. — Kinky Friedman

A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. — R. Alan Woods

I think heroes and heroines are both vulgar and boring and usually lead that kind of lives. But when you tell people you were just doing your own thing in an admittedly escalated situation, they say, Ah, yes, etc. — Katharine Graham

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us? — William Shakespeare