Downies Coins Quotes & Sayings

Would my first trip to Europe be spent evading drunken maniacs and watching birds evacuate their bowels on rocky beaches? — Ransom Riggs

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison. — John Lubbock

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. — George Bernard Shaw

Unruly geeks change the world — Alexandra Robbins

Remember that no one is ever rewarded or promoted because of a bad disposition and negative mental attitude — Napoleon Hill

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life. — Stieg Larsson

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death? — Jojo Moyes

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed — H.W. Brands

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. — Frank A. Clark

RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture.
BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms. — Valerie Solanas

Shakespeare esque! — Michael Sheen

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. — Ariel Dorfman

Mr. Beck, I'm Detective Reynolds," she said, holding out her hand. Sebastian eyed it warily. " You going to actually break my finger this time?" he asked, narrowing his eyes at her. She rolled her eyes at him. " Not if I don't have to. — Andria Large

But to the managing editor of Life, Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr., the problem centered on bias. "Of course, we did not intentionally mislead our readers," he wrote. But I do think that we ourselves were misled by our bias. Because of that bias we did not exert ourselves enough to report the side we didn't believe in. We were too ready to accept the evidence of pictures like the empty auditorium at Omaha and to ignore the later crowds. We were too eager to report the Truman "bobbles" and to pass over the things that were wrong about the Republican campaign: empty Dewey speeches, the bad Republican candidates, the dangers of Republican commitments to big business. — David McCullough

(Every word they said now would be true.) Do say something, she thought, wishing only to hear his voice. For the shadow, the thing folding them in was beginning, she felt, to close round her again. Say anything, she begged, looking at him, as if for help. — Virginia Woolf