Chamfered Quotes & Sayings

My daily mantra: Give Peace a Chance. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake. — Alejandro Amenabar

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. — Bill Wyman

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. — Elbert Hubbard

A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence. — Ian McKellen

The door shut behind them all, and locked. The women stared at it, mesmerized, and observed across it the wavering shadow of an uncanny cloud. Behind the chamfered windows the sun was obscured by drifting wreaths of grey smoke, and the silence filled with the crackling of flames. The youngest surviving Crawford, in leaving, had deftly set fire to the castle. — Dorothy Dunnett

You rejoice in your freedom, and you feel that at last you can call your soul your own. You seem to walk with your head among the stars. And then, all of a sudden you can't stand it anymore, and you notice that all the time your feet have been walking in the mud. — W. Somerset Maugham

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies. — Ben Carson

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks. — Esme Bianco

Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex's vocabulary down to one word. — Tessa Bailey

I hope the coffee is good and strong and the croissants fresh and that the weather is still sunny. — Jojo Moyes

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness. — Nicholas A. Christakis

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet. — Michael Showalter