Beatrice Leep Hoot Quotes & Sayings

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore. — Mae West

The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding ... and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be ... . But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it. — Noam Chomsky

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. — J. Paul Getty

Do whatever you want with this dedication, but don't - don't - use it on your eyebrows. — Robert Galbraith

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis. — Michael Leunig

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing. — Jake LaMotta

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. — Walter Salles

I am one of those who can realize themselves fully and bloom only when they form part of a couple. Even though I understand your stand, even though I respect the choice of liberated women, I have never conceived of happiness outside of marriage. — Mariama Ba

Poetry is a mode of consciousness. — Fred Chappell

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal. — Leonard Cohen

I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude. — Ben Elliot

In that quiet, Ruby heard the echo of a broken family; they were individual pieces, now separate, wanting a wholeness that had been shattered. — Kristin Hannah

Fermin shook his head. 'And is that why you believe that if you manage to unravel the mystery of Julian Carax and rescue him from oblivion, the face of your mother will come back to you?'
I looked at him. There was no irony or judgment in his expression. For a moment Fermin Romero de Torres seemed to me the wisest and most lucid man in the universe. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that. — Hillary Clinton

The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible. — Paul Theroux