Borien Quotes & Sayings

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. — Horatio Nelson

For the record, there were no framed pictures of me around our house, and the only class portrait Dad had ever ordered was the one from Sparta Elementary in which I'd sat, knees glued together, in front of a background that looked like Yosemite, sporting pink overalls and a lazy eye. "This is classic," Dad said. "That they shamelessly send me an order form so I can pay $69.95 for prints large and small of a photo in which my daughter looks as if she just suffered a great blow to her head - it just shows you, we are simply strapped to a motorized assembly line moving through this country. We're supposed to pay out, shut up or get tossed in the rejects bin. — Marisha Pessl

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out. — Natalia Vodianova

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. — Andy Warhol

The so-called Conservative, the conscientious, philanthropic Conservative, seeing this, and being surely convinced that such inequalities are of divine origin, tells himself that it is his duty to preserve them. — Anthony Trollope

History was about to be made. Or, if not actually made, then torn apart. — Trevor Baxendale

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know? — Chiwetel Ejiofor

If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program. — Barton Gellman

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with. — Greg Bryk

I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable? — J.R.R. Tolkien

My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do. — David Berg

She looked paper-thin, and she did not want to say anything that would tear her around the edges. — Mirriam Neal

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. — Kate Jacobs