Facilely Mean Quotes & Sayings

But a world in which all intercultural communication was carried out in a single idiom would not diminish the variety of human tongues. It would just make native speakers of the international medium less sophisticated users of language than all others, since they alone would have only one language to think with. — David Bellos

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente

We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something. — Marta

I wouldn't do go to another band. — John Deacon

OK, some people might think he's a degenerate, troublesome, drug dealing, coke dependant, alcoholic, but that doesn't make him a bad person. — Peter L Masters

They all want to leave the Gray Space, Liv, she'd tell me. They don't realise they're dead until they remember what it sounds like to be alive. — Kate Ellison

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate. — Mohsin Hamid

Different people are different! — John Christian Edwards

Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian. — Cynthia Lennon

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen. — Emil Cioran

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same. — Woody Allen

There are places and moments in America where this nation's destiny has been decided ... Selma is such a place. — Barack Obama

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet. — Robert Palmer

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project. — Philip Yancey

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg