Babbacombe Quotes & Sayings

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. — Douglas Coupland

The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore. — Tom Petty

This Thursday night felt like adolescence: exquisitely painful and sharply beautiful. — Liane Moriarty

I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife. — Ben Mezrich

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually. — Warren Farrell

The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street. — Arthur Caplan

Every action has an effect, to change the society act with kindness and love. — Debasish Mridha

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know. — Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'. — Renee Zellweger

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. — Peg Bracken

Somebody left the American Dream in the toaster too long. It's now burnt to a crisp. — Joe Bageant

Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion industry. He fused pop and high fashion, told a story in style and combined fantasy with reality. — Nicola Formichetti

Only people who claim their own voice can hear the true song of another. — Elizabeth Lesser

I'm very passionate. — Abbie Cornish