Gladstone Bag Quotes & Sayings

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. — Elle Thornton

It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed and the Bakerloo conclusively became brown, a very early twentieth-century brown, which brings something of the nineteenth century with it - the colour of Sherlock Holmes's pipe, a Gladstone bag, a grandfather clock. — Paul Morley

The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much. — Steve Waugh

Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for. — Michael Tilson Thomas

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. — Jay Leno

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind. — Tod Machover

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore. — Richard Foth

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde

Once you discover that you can, you must. — Al Jarreau

This producer was a woman, a type I became acquainted with at the beginning of my stand-up career in Denver. I cared little for them: blondes in high heels who were so anxious to reach the professional level of the men they worshipped, fawned over, served, built up, and flattered that they would stab other women in the back. They are the ultimate weapon used by men against actual feminists who try to work in media, and they are never friends to other women, you can trust me on that. — Roseanne Barr

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs. — James Thurber

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be. — Mila Kunis

In life, when you are faced with an unfortunate circumstance, there's no book, there's no guide, there's no right answer on how to get to the other side. You just sort of wake up one day and you have two paths in front of you, one where you go up and one where you can fall, and choosing the path to rise is most certainly not the easy path but it's the brave one. — Lea Michele

Don't tell the guys at Trinity Broadcast Network, but financial prosperity is not the primary indicator of God's blessing. Think back to the garden. What was the greatest blessing that God gave to Adam and Eve? The greatest blessing was living in God's very presence, knowing him, and worshipping him. — Chris Bruno