Elasticated Tubular Quotes & Sayings

I've always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I've never lost sight of that. — Natalie Merchant

I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts. The indications revealed. That few of us realize life is quite surreal — Owl City

The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior. — Susan Cain

My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice. — Iris Apfel

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions. — Bobby Fischer

I love you more than I love goats, and you know how I feel about goats, Gaby said. — James Patterson

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us. — Annie Lennox

Recently, I spent eight days in a car with my co-host from Top Gear James May, who has a notoriously flatulent bottom. But because he was living on army rations the interior was always pine fresh and lemon zesty. — Jeremy Clarkson

any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By — Julian Stockwin

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do. — Timothy J. Keller

Your organs are all failing, but your cancer...well, your cancer is doing great. — Al Sarrantonio

And I felt next to nothing as I walked to the village; I paid my respects to the countryside yet was unable to detect solemn sympathy in its quiet or reproach in its stillness. Usually that road brought me miles of footage from the past: the bright-faced ten-year-old running for the Oxford bus; the lardy pubescent, out on soul-rambles (i.e. sulks), or off for a wank in the woods; the youth, handsomely reading Tennyson on summer evenings, or trying to kill birds with feeble, rusted slug-guns, or behind the hedge smoking fags with Geoffrey, then hawking in the ditch. But now I strode it vacantly, my childhood nowhere to be found. — Martin Amis

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out. — Greg Giraldo

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable. — Robert Ripley