Blaises Club Quotes & Sayings

We have to learn everything we do. — Philip Pullman

I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death. — David Gemmell

As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative. — Leo Buscaglia

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. — E.B. White

The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand. — Warren Mundine

He'll get drowsy soon." Mr. Charpentier shifted back onto his heels. "That's the best part, when they're all sweet and snuggly. Little buggers wrap us around their fingers without even trying." "You — Grace Burrowes

Our eyes adjusted; we gazed at what was in the room. And then I felt the floor pitch under me, as if we were suddenly at sea. George cleared his throat. I put out my hand to clench his arm.
Lockwood stood slightly behind us, waiting.
"Your parents?" I was the first to find my voice.
"Close," Anthony Lockwood said. "My sister. — Jonathan Stroud

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS! — Sylvester Stallone

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. — Dick Powell

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull. — Alan W. Watts

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds. — Kunal Nayyar

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive. — Will Shetterly

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie? — Drew Carey