Bassdrive Archives Quotes & Sayings

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it ... — Terry McMillan

It's hard to balwnce a career and a family. There's no way to get it right all the time — Kirsten Beyer

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed. — Plato

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage. — Philippa Gregory

Even stupid people have a role to play
in your life. They make you wiser and
more patient. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all. — Paul Kane

While I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes. — R.L. LaFevers

Forgotten phone numbers and birthdays represent minor erosions of our everyday memory, but they are part of a much larger story of how we've supplanted our own natural memory with a vast superstructure of technological crutches - from the alphabet to the BlackBerry. These technologies of storing information outside our minds have helped make our modern world possible, but they've also changed how we think and how we use our brains. — Joshua Foer

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure. — Autre Ne Veut

I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me. — Kieron Dyer

There were multitudes of dependents fed at the great houses, and everywhere, according to means, a wide-open hospitality was maintained. Froude gives a notion of the style of living in earlier times by citing the details of a feast given when George Neville, brother of Warwick the king-maker, was made archbishop of York. There were present, including servants, thirty-five hundred persons. These are a few of the things used at the banquet: three hundred quarters of wheat, three hundred tuns of ale, one hundred and four tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thousand geese, two thousand pigs, - four thousand conies, four thousand heronshaws, four thousand venison pasties cold and five hundred hot, four thousand cold tarts, four thousand cold custards, eight seals, four porpoises, and so on. — William Shakespeare

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. — Richard Cobden