Brylcreem Hair Quotes & Sayings

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance. — Jeffrey Brown

Sometimes, the lascars would gather between the bows to listen to the stories of the greybeards. There was the steward, Cornelius Pinto: a grey-haired Catholic, from Goa, he claimed to have been around the world twice, sailing in every kind of ship, with every kind of sailor - including Finns, who were known to be the warlocks and wizards of the sea, capable of conjuring up winds with a whistle. — Amitav Ghosh

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret

Confucius said: "You are never in a position to learn unless you are totally confused. — Marcus Gibson

I don't like rehearsal. — Charlize Theron

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. — Nate Silver

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. — Lytton Strachey

Change works most effectively when started from the inside — Megan Alexander

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership. — James F. Amos

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind. — Kofi Annan

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. — Hugo Hamilton

I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on. — Ricky Hatton