Derivera Br K Quotes & Sayings

I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place. — Peter Finch

In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

People like to see showdowns. — Usain Bolt

I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. — David Shrigley

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. — William Hazlitt

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius. — Charles Fort

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices. — Alan Dershowitz

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience. — Christopher Paolini

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. — Ashley Montagu

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading. — Scott Ellis

She holds every dress briefly by its shoulders like it's a schoolkid she's checking out for smudges before church. Then one by one they get flung away from her and into the fire. — Mary Karr