Contenaires Quotes & Sayings

Certainly I know better than most that circumstances can turn you into someone you've never been before. — Jodi Picoult

I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.' — Timbaland

Live and let live is the rule of common justice. — Roger L'Estrange

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow. — Camille Henrot

Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children — Alfie Kohn

You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries. — Osama Bin Laden

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. — Charles Dudley Warner

I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how 'heroic' he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy. — Tess Gerritsen

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics. — Hillary Clinton

When [Wonder Woman creator William Moulton] Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder Woman should be the most sexually attractive, intelligent, potent woman you can imagine. Instead she became this weird cross between the Virgin Mary and Mary Tyler Moore that didn't even appeal to girls. — Grant Morrison

And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly? — Felix Mendelssohn

No night is long enough for us to dream twice. — Mahmoud Darwish

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it. — Alex Pettyfer

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do. — Mark Bradford