Collinus Quotes & Sayings

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. — Peter Jackson

To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. — Jean-Baptiste Say

whenever I achieve a little something and am complimented, shortly thereafter I am swiftly kicked in the ass by karma. — Ruby Wax

Guys are all sperm-guns. — David Mitchell

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. — Taylor Swift

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all. — John Lancaster Spalding

For you she learned to wear a short black slip
and red lipstick,
how to order a glass of red wine
and finish it. She learned to reach out
as if to touch your arm and then not
touch it, changing the subject.
Didn't you think, she'd begin, or
Weren't you sorry. . . .

To call your best friends
by their schoolboy names
and give them kisses good-bye,
to look away when they say
Your wife! So your confidence grows.
She doesn't ask what you want
because she knows.

Isn't that what you think?

When actually she was only waiting
to be told Take off your dress---
to be stunned, and then do this,
never rehearsed, but perfectly obvious:
in one motion up, over, and gone,
the X of her arms crossing and uncrossing,
her face flashing away from you in the fabric
so that you couldn't say if she was
appearing or disappearing. — Deborah Garrison

The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again. — Tammara Webber

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor. — Ed Royce

Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver. — Billy Graham

Why can't I say anything normal? — Jennifer Lawrence