Elianis Portal Mugshot Quotes & Sayings

Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. — Thomas Jefferson

Hang it all! what is a man ashamed of nowadays? — G.K. Chesterton

Tegner's Drapa

I heard a voice that faintly said
"Balder the beautiful lies dead, lies dead . . ."
a voice like the flight of white cranes overhead -
ghostly, haunting the sun, life-abetting,
but a sun now irretrievably setting.

Then I saw the sun's carcass, blackened with flies,
fall into night's darkness, to nevermore rise,
borne grotesquely to Hel through disconsolate skies
as blasts from the Nifel-heim rang out with dread,
"Balder lies dead, gentle Balder lies dead! . . ."

Lost, lost forever - the runes of his tongue;
the blithe warmth of his smile; his bright face, cherished, young;
the lithe grace of his figure, all the girls' hearts undone
O, what god could have dreamed such strange words might be said
as "Balder lies dead, our fair Balder lies dead! — Esaias Tegner

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled. — J.K. Rowling

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in. — Oliver Jackson-Cohen

No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments. — David Starr Jordan

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. — David Mitchell

Nevertheless, a few brave researchers have bellied up to the laboratory. — Eric Weiner

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep. — Kim Basinger

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. — Keith Carter

A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times. — Terry Pratchett