Laptev Walrus Quotes & Sayings

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. — Nigel Rees

We Latins are known for jabbering on. — Eduardo Galeano

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth - one shred of evidence. — Paul Volcker

We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. — Anthony Eden

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that. — Anthony Hopkins

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. — Robert Hewison

There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others. — Frederick Lenz

I would have to ask her, just to make certain I'd done everything I could. But I'd warn her. I have no money, no prospects, an exceedingly ugly face, and my dearest friend is the King of Hell."
"You think that would stop her?"
"I have no idea. Would it, Lydia?"
"Nothing would stop her, if she loved you. And she does, Charles. She loves your pretty face and you scarred face. She loves your past and your present and she most especially loves your future. Just ask."
"Marry me, Lydia. — Anne Stuart

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.
Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat. — Erica Jong

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. — Meryl Streep

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young. — Daniel Wu

Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish. — Nobu Matsuhisa

I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane. — Sheryl Crow