Dr Fu Manchu Quotes & Sayings

I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger. — Lana Del Rey

Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after. — Martin Amis

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others. — Plutarch

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling. — Alice McDermott

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing. — Michael Clarke Duncan

Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government
which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man. — Sax Rohmer

Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up — Bo Sanchez

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. — Murray Bookchin

Tell me i'm not losing more of you to him every fucking day.
-Seth — Melissa Marr

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship. — Robyn Schneider

After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not. — Frances Hardinge

I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And
when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress. — Lucille Ball