Haverdasher Quotes & Sayings

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. — Alex Kapranos

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules. — Earl Butz

Politicians are less problem for us, our greatest challenge as a nation is coming from the pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do. — William McDonough, Michael Braungart

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family. — Milla Jovovich

I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself. — Shayne Ward

That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has. — John Campbell Shairp

In 1986, I read a remarkable article by Israel Rosenfield in The New York Review of Books in which he discussed the revolutionary work and views of Gerald M. Edelman. Edelman was nothing if not bold. We are at the beginning of — Oliver Sacks

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. — Nikki Sixx

Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule. Private philanthropy indeed is the only valid expression of these ethical principles; compulsory charity through 'social legislation' is the exact contrary: it is the evil imposition of force by one group on another. — Murray Rothbard

You can't take a crash course in serenity. — Shirley Maclaine

Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job. — Dana Goldstein

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste. — Honore De Balzac

Foucault's was a seductive image, one that helped to make him famous and to attract legions of disciples. But for all that, it remains a late 20th-century ideological construct, one with little or no contemporary relevance or resonance in the societies it purports to describe. — Andrew Scull