Flinx And Pip Quotes & Sayings

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be-eagles, not chickens. — Desmond Tutu

That dream's over," I say shortly. "Partners don't make fifty-million-quid mistakes. — Sophie Kinsella

I'm a five-seasons griller! Did you know I added a new season? Living in Cali, I'm cooking in the yard all the time. I don't care what the weather is like. My hair is impervious to any kind of dampness, so I don't have too much to worry about. — Guy Fieri

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India. — Annie Besant

I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies). — Frances Trollope

Sometimes I'd catch him looking at me with a gentle smile, as if the very sight of my presence were his greatest treasure. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He had imagined Constantinople, had wanted it for Mehmed. It had been simple and straightforward. But now he knew the true cost of things, the murky horrors of the distance between wanting something and getting it. — Kiersten White

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that. — Naomi Oreskes

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. — Mike Myers

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. — Charles Caleb Colton

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. — Bill Gates

Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal. — Wole Soyinka

I'm not a fighter. I usually smile and then go into my room and cry my eyes out. — Suman Bhattacharya

'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring. — Rivers Cuomo

I walked over and hugged him, knowing it would only make things worse for him. I don't get that many chances to torture Brasti. — Sebastien De Castell