Besmirched Def Quotes & Sayings

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. — Morris Gleitzman

Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake. — Matthew Flickstein

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations. — Novalis

The roadblock had disappeared under his fingers as magically as cotton candy dissolves on the lips. — Stephen King

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved. — Mark Rutte

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish. — William Allen White

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good. — Chris LeDoux

He's very nice," said Mrs. Clayton, "but not quite quite, you know. Hasn't got any idea of culture." Richard found his room exceedingly comfortable, and his appreciation of Mrs. Clayton as a hostess rose still higher. — Agatha Christie

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started. — Brian Tracy

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. — Alan Dershowitz

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing. — Vince Cable

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world. — Rupert Friend