Cuschieri Textbook Quotes & Sayings

In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer! — Sharon Kay Penman

The most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour. — Alan Moore

One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start. — Simon Mainwaring

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job. — Gerald M. Weinberg

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory. — Daisaku Ikeda

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others. — Katori Hall

Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it. — Maya Banks

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here ... it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses. — Irvine Welsh

If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once. — Steven J. Lawson

The harmony of two bodies expressed in this single touch, bridging their differences and bending their moral reserve, was as powerful and wild as
physical fulfillment, yet there was nothing false in this harmony, no
illusion created that just by touching, our bodies could express feelings
that rationality prevented us from making permanent; I might even say that
our bodies cooly preserved their good sense, scheming and keeping each
other in check, as if to say, I'll yield unreservedly to the madness of
the moment but only if and when you do the same; but this physical plea
for passion and reason, spontaneity and calculation, closeness and
distance, took our bodies past the point where, clinging to desire and
striving for the moment of gratification, they would seek a new and more complete harmony. — Peter Nadas

A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice. — Gregory David Roberts

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. — Keith Richards