Garrulus Carolinensis Quotes & Sayings

Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? — Steven Wright

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence ... is not in their interests. — Stephen Hadley

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that. — Bryan Ferry

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law. — John Fund

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against. — Frederick Lenz

For a moment, Isabel's eyes met those of someone looking out of the window, a thin-faced woman with her hair done up in a bun. The woman began a smile, but stopped, as if conscious of somehow transgressing the conventions of isolation with which as city-dwellers we immure ourselves. The bus moved on, and zisabel felt a sudden desire to run alongside it, to wave to the woman, to aknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between them. But she did mot, necause she never acted on these impulses, and because it might have puzzled or even frightened the other woman. — Alexander McCall Smith

See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations. — Anthony Doerr

We shall change all that ... because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed. — Alexander McCall Smith

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness — Ignatius Of Loyola

Yeah, isn't it? Life's a bitch and then one stabs you. — Jeaniene Frost

We had started the tour hoping to make about 200 pounds each as the All Blacks (All Golds) had done the previous year. We got nothing and were lucky to get home! — Dally Messenger

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low. — Franz Grillparzer

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. — Harold S. Geneen

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another. — Romain Rolland