Berthoud Quotes & Sayings

I think what most people miss, and what I missed last time, are the people that are important in your life. You know, the relationships you have with people on the ground. — Scott Kelly

I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."
Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe?
"Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there? — Cassandra Clare

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. — Zoltan Istvan

I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states! — Sean Hannity

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. — John Taylor Gatto

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. — Kim Cattrall

The great thing about being up early on a Sunday is nothing. — Doug Benson

I whoop people for truckloads of cash — Conor McGregor

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Go to a wig store with your girlfriends, never by yourself. You need someone to say, 'Girl that looks good!' You need someone to encourage you to try pieces on. Try to purchase a wig close to your natural hair color as possible, don't come in with brown hair and try to leave as a redhead unless you are fine with that! — Sherri Shepherd

In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which we can escape and exercise our love for all things beyond our ken. close off these speculative worlds at your peril. — Ella Berthoud

He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about; — Eric Jerome Dickey

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. — Ronnie Wood

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have always cultivated a feeling of humane indulgence for foreigners. They do not possess our blessings and advantages, and they are, for the most part, brought up in the blind errors of Popery. It has also always been my precept and practice, as it was my dear husband's precept and practice before me (see Sermon XXIX. in the Collection by the late Rev. Samuel Michelson, M.A.), to do as I would be done by. On both these accounts I will not say that Mrs. Rubelle struck me as being a small, wiry, sly person, of fifty or thereabouts, with a dark brown or Creole complexion and watchful light grey eyes. Nor — Wilkie Collins

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun. — Victoria Jackson