Crikey The Irwins Quotes & Sayings

Not that a locked door made a difference to me, since we'd all been rigorously trained in "the ladylike arts of breaking and entering, — Daniel O'Malley

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are. — Joe Wurzelbacher

What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it. — Timothy Snyder

If you have answered God's call and made the decision to fulfill your calling, then the devil will try to destroy you — Sunday Adelaja

I'm not interested in being polite. It's false. — Libba Bray

Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us. — Sherry Turkle

[The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses. — Amy Goodman

Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Being able to just stick to our instincts and honor the [Hunger Games] books and find a way to stay the course of trying to make the best possible decisions that you would make creatively on any movie, without having your head turned too much by all of the interest, has been a great challenge. It's the best challenge you could ask for, but that was a big challenge. — Nina Jacobson

I'll teach you how to do it later. I just had to see you experience it," he said softly in Matt's ear. "I haven't been able to get you out of my mind since I first saw you. — Dan Skinner

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino

Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace. — Karen Hawkins

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.' — David Quammen