Illustreren Quotes & Sayings

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is how to control entire populations - don't suppress news, but make it so dumb and dull that nobody has any interest in it. — David Mitchell

I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it. — Walter Isaacson

Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I'll need a private plane to charter the international waters! — Godfrey Gao

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins. — Elvis Presley

So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen. — Billy Campbell

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. — Russell Baker

Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods. — Will Durant

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable - namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them. — Charles Darwin

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. — Terence McKenna

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff. — Sydney Schanberg

Sometimes folks don't need to say much at all, they just put out that cold no room for you feeling. — Gregory E. Ransom

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it. — Gabriel Iglesias

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. — Joshua