Barbican York Quotes & Sayings

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they? — Ian Paisley

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself. — Byron Katie

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me. — Richard Flanagan

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday
even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued ... — Elizabeth Blair Lee

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. — Frank Luntz

Baseball is a game of inches. — Branch Rickey

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you. — Mickey Rooney

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. — Vaslav Nijinsky

It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy. — Sibel Kekilli

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. — Scott Westerfeld

I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day. — Michael Ian Black

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus. — Shashi Tharoor

Our friendship just kind of fizzled, like a sparkler burning down to your fingers. By the time you realize you were being burned, it was too late - the damage done, the spark already extinguished. — Megan Miranda