Laukkanen 2008 Quotes & Sayings

The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing. — Helen Sharman

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork? — Charles Kingsley

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Why do the poor refuse to give an accurate picture of their suffering? — Karan Mahajan

[On Los Angeles:] This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is swallowed up and spat out as a franchise. Taco Bell. Benihana of Tokyo. Numero Uno Pizza. Pup 'N' Taco. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Fast food sushi. Teriyaki Bowl. — Anne Finger

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours. — Mary Hart

To know and not do, is to not yet know. — Confucius

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness — Dante Alighieri

In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. — Paul Monette

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. — Florence Nightingale

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. — Richard Branson

But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself. — Ally Carter

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?" — Wendy Williams