Discovered That A Pairs Quotes & Sayings

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. — Mo Rocca

He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary. — Christy Reece

The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try. — Gurinder Chadha

It has been observed that I show hardly any interest in talking about myself. It is hard for me to disentangle my own person from the social processes, the ideas and activities in which it has shared, which matter more than it does and which give it value. I do not think of myself as at all an individualist: rather as a 'personalist', in that I view human personality as a supreme value, only integrated in society and history. The experience and thought of one man have no significance that deserves to last, except in this sense. — Victor Serge

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. — Giorgio Moroder

I didn't create poverty. This church didn't create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind. — Peter Akinola

The thinking man often rebuked his girlfriend because of her extravagance. Once he discovered four pairs of shoes in her room. "I also have four different kinds of feet," she excused herself.
The thinking man laughed and asked: "So what do you do, when one pair is worn out?" At that, she realized he was not yet quite in the picture and said, "I made a mistake, I have five different kinds of feet." With that the thinking man was finally in the picture. — Bertolt Brecht

And then what? Said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, Ms. Lane, I didn't mean to wrinkle your lovely blouse. May I press that for you?' Or perhaps you gouged it with one of your pretty pink nails?
I was really beginning to wonder what his hang-up with pink was, but I didn't resent the sarcasm in his voice. — Karen Marie Moning

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you're a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed.
And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive. — Jill Badonsky

Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I meant to say was: I thought you hated me. I was hoping you'd persuade me of the opposite - and you did, for a while. Why won't I believe it tomorrow morning? — Andre Aciman

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment. — Jordan Knight

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun. — A-Trak

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. — James A. Garfield

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic. — Jonah Lehrer

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen. — Simon Mawer

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself. — Ira Glass

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. — Ruth Wilson