Briefly Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

I believe ... that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting. — Katharine Graham

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world. — Leon Panetta

When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up. — Moby

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. — Vivienne Westwood

But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees because God is not in words, and not in systems, and not in liturgical movements, and not in "contemplation" with a big "C," or in asceticism or in anything like that, not even in the apostolate. — Thomas Merton

There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him. — Frank Herbert

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. — Huddie William Ledbetter

That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles. — David Kirschner

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales. — Philip Pullman

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up. — Elvis Costello

There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism. — Michael Specter