Clever Squirrel Quotes & Sayings

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. — Mark Twain

BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they're going to do with them. It's the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas. — Terry Wogan

Before my marriage, I didn't think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems. — Grace Kelly

An elegant sari was draped across her figure; magnificent, painstakingly embroidered, and in a shade of deep red, it was even more lavish than the gowns she had worn every day since arriving at the castle. Her lips and eyes were painted, and though she looked beautiful she had never been more miserable. — Katie Lynn Johnson

I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy - for otherwise how can we manage to bear it? — Penelope Fitzgerald

What Greenspan was saying, in other words, was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with bidding up to $100 million in share value some hot-air Internet stock, because the lack of that company's "physical value" (i.e., the actual money those three employees weren't earning) could be overcome by the inherent value of their "ideas." To say that this was a radical reinterpretation of the entire science of economics is an understatement - economists had never dared measure "value" except in terms of actual concrete production. It was equivalent to a chemist saying that concrete becomes gold when you paint it yellow. It was lunacy. — Matt Taibbi

I would say I'm an optimist by nature. — Steve Tisch

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us. — Izzeldin Abuelaish

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for. — Kelly Osbourne

There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared. — Richard M. Rorty

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. — Charles G. Dawes

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! — William Shakespeare