Embroidering Names Quotes & Sayings

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters. — Channing Tatum

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten. — Bobby Bowden

Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. — Isaac Asimov

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. — Patrick Henry

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. — Jackson Browne

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot. — Anthony Doerr

You don't like people very much. We both know that. You put up with them, and some of them you care about, but for the most part, you'd be happy if you were that dude on The Twilight Zone who lived through the bomb being dropped and then had all the books in the world and no one to tell him to put them down. — Anonymous

President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around. — Argus Hamilton

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. — B.B. King

I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent. — Brian Sewell

Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me. — Sheryl Crow

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy. — Mickey Mantle

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art. — Marilyn Minter