Fremito Que Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion. His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend. — Jane Austen

They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam. — Michael Scheuer

We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion. — Sorin Cerin

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction. — Connie Brockway

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it. — David Pogue

A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square. — Trevor Bailey

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation. — Virginia Woolf

When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds. — Powers Boothe

How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives. — Pope Francis

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out! — Eva Gabor

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon. — David Harewood

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study. — Maria Mitchell