Blightsteel Quotes & Sayings

In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head. — Paul Merton

Irony takes nothing away from pathos. — Gustave Flaubert

The one who would glorify his God must be prepared to meet with many trials. No — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are the same, you and I. We are images of light. — Miguel Ruiz

We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was. — Joe Johnston

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus

Like all fundamentalists who get their clammy hands on the levers of power, the market fanatics are going to kill off every humane, life-enhancing, generous, imaginative and decent corner of our public life ... Market fundamentalism, this madness that's infected the human race, is like a greedy ghost that haunts the boardrooms and council chambers and committee rooms from which the world is run these days. The greedy ghost understands profit all right. But that's all. What he doesn't understand is enterprises that don't make a profit, because they're set up to do something different. He doesn't understand libraries at all ... — Philip Pullman

Stealing memories was stealing time. I got so mad, I lost all fear. I didn't care what happened. I want to live! I told myself. I will live. I will get out of this insane netherworld and get back my stolen memories and live. Forget the end of the world, I was ready to claim my whole self. — Haruki Murakami

A daydream is an evasion. — Thomas Merton

I get so much energy from the fans. — Janet Jackson

But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain - the pain that registers inside - the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives. — Stephen Mansfield

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises. — Theresa May

growing older is all about learning and passing it on, otherwise there is no reason for biological evolution to keep us alive after our reproductive years are over. — Twinkle Khanna

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead. — Raymond Chandler