Etsinsider Quotes & Sayings

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry! — Hamish Bowles

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die. — Ozzy Osbourne

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down. — David O. Russell

You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work. — Douglas Coupland

A few times in my life, I have been manipulated by the sexual power of a woman. "Could you help with my assignment?" I'll do it for you. "I don't know why they've given me middle seat." Take mine. "I thought the trains would still be running." Let me drive your home. No promises, no offers, nothing expected in return. — Graeme Simsion

He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness. — Victoria Schwab

Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity. — Carlo Carretto

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. — John R. Rice

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins. — Noel Gallagher

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms. — Nigel Hamilton

This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can — Rich Froning Jr.

Violence was seen by wiseguys as a tool to get what you want and only occasionally to vent your anger. It was not seen as a plus or a minus, it was just part of the landscape. — Nick Apuzzo

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride. — John Olsen

Certainly, it could be otherwise. Religion and race could completely recede as decisive factors in the life of a people and of nations in favor of humanity, which alone determines the value and essence of the person. — Agnes Grunwald-Spier