Birtles Home Quotes & Sayings

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it. — S.E. Hinton

When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole. — Anna Quindlen

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. — Alexander Pope

And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain. — C. JoyBell C.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. — Al Gore

Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider — Sandra Scarr

Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism". — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. — Thomas Carlyle

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. — Paulo Coelho

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all. — Michael Bay

You are your passion. Life is your ultimate mission so never forget to enjoy the adventure. — Debasish Mridha

[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books ... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune with books is lead to detest all manner of vice. The demon, who derives his name from knowledge, is most effectually defeated by the knowledge of books, and through books his multitudinous deceits and the endless labyrinths of his guile are laid bare to those who read ... — Richard De Bury

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students. — Debbie Stabenow