Guardian 2006 Quotes & Sayings

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town. — Henry Fielding

And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay. — Milan Kundera

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country. — Alphonso Jackson

May God teach us to enjoy serving others as a sign of our love for Him. - Pat Stockett Johnston - — Gary Chapman

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. — Stone Gossard

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group. — John Lennon

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit. (Guardian interview 2006) — Guillermo Del Toro

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives. — Richard Livingstone

When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about. — Nick Cave

Watching the ice-floes dance together on the black water. — Clive Barker

If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop ... — Samantha Young