Guillotining Ancient Quotes & Sayings

Besides my love for horses and cars, I am passionate about making the cheapest vaccines in the world. I started making life-saving drugs when I was 22. — Cyrus S. Poonawalla

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game. — John Lennon

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. — Arthur Baer

I've been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid. — Gurinder Chadha

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd

they looked down to see what happened? We weren't — Dave Hnida

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business. — Theodore Roosevelt

It was luck, dumb luck, that had put them each where they were, and the best way to pay for any luck, however temporary, was just to be helpful when you could. — Thomas Pynchon

I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success. — E.W. Hornung

they have commandos and astronauts who know this kind of thing cold." "But Raz, you are educable, you can learn 'this kind of thing,' if by that you mean how to maneuver an S2-35B and how to assemble a Cold Black Mirror. You've spent your whole life, ever since you were Collected, becoming educable. — Neal Stephenson

Bleak as the scene was, though, there was growing joy in Inman's heart. He was nearing home; he could feel it in the touch of thin air on skin, in his longing to see the lead of hearth smoke from the houses of people he had known all his life. People he would not be called upon to hate or fear. He rose and took a wide stance on the rock and stood and pinched down his eyes to sharpen the view across the vast propect to one far mountain. It stood apart from the sky only as the stroke of a poorly inked pen, a line thin and quick and gestural. But the shape slowly grew plain and unmistakable. It was to Cold Mountain he looked. He had achieved a vista of what for him was homeland. — Charles Frazier

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough

I'd reached the point where if a character in one of the novels I was reading happened to be eating, I had to skip over the scene because it simply hurt too much to read about what I wanted and couldn't have. I — Cheryl Strayed

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. — A.J. Ayer

Love can be broken but never forgotten. — Ivy Devlin