Greater Manchester Quotes & Sayings

I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it. — Brie Larson

In the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts. — May Sarton

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to. — Helen Sharman

Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent. — Pentti Linkola

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss. — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this. — Warren Rudman

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. — George Washington

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. — Albert Einstein

there are times when a truly remarkable soldier must resort to unorthodox behavior, disobeying his superiors to gain the greater glory. — William Manchester

I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned. — Ishmael Reed

as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. — Oscar Wilde

I eat healthy most of the time, but I love chocolate. I can't help it! — Carla Overbeck

Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself. — Geoffrey Boycott

I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player. — Yaya Toure

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies. — Jo Walton

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester. — Brendan Rodgers

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them. — Michael Chabon

Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence! — Anonymous

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods? — James Agee