Dragnetweb Quotes & Sayings

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them. — Antony Garrett Lisi

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs. — T. J. Miller

I'm a mother fucking human holocaust! — Jonathan Culver

Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be. I'm able to step into these other parts of myself. I feel like, as long as I keep doing that in my career, and I keep tapping into different parts of the human condition, that's all I ask for. — Rose McIver

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment. — Pema Chodron

Shuffled on my feet because my naughty bits felt like they were being pierced with a horny spear. — Anonymous

My voice comes from faraway, therefore it is faint and, also, because it is a woman's voice, it is trembling of the emotion imposed by your presence, as much as of the honour of being listen to. My voice comes from faraway, but it hopes when you will listen to it that it will resound in your hearts.
My voice comes from the midst of this nation, which having been placed on the threshold of Europe, will have loved and admired France and like France, and often through it, she would have strived for Freedom, vowed to have accomplished a splendid destiny and face bravely the changing mood of Fortune.

You may well recognise in these qualities Romania, land of suffering, land of enlightenment and of valour placed across the promontory against the dredge of Asian invasions and like a beacon being mightily conscious of defending the civilization, which gave it its people and its laws. - Paris, 27th April 1925; addressing the League of Nations (translated Constantin Roman — Elena Vacarescu

Where, in Heaven's name, could anyone even be alone in Calcutta? What hanky-panky business, in my mother's words, could go on? Everyone knew the rules and the rules stated caste and community narrowed the range of intimate contact. — Bharati Mukherjee

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. — Harry Houdini

Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having his baby. Apparently, he's been writing to Princess Anne too, so I clearly belong to a good, erm, sub-section of society. — Konnie Huq

But just as you become impregnated with someone, even after that someone is gone, that is how Lilus remained — Elena Poniatowska

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it. — Junot Diaz

We need to touch the fountain of life to draw in living lasting strength. — Ikechukwu Joseph

I used to go to the school folk club with my songs when I was only 13 or so and say "this is a traditional folk song" and sing it with a bad Irish accent to disguise the real source. — Mark Knopfler

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. — Michael Bassey Johnson