Lermitage Museum Quotes & Sayings

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody. — Bertie Ahern

He would learn the truth. Tonight he would flout his own rules. Meet the girl alone. Ask her a single question. He could afford that. — Renee Ahdieh

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has? — Blake Shelton

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance. — Jerry White

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. — Ann Radcliffe

I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish. — Walter Isaacson

I smell her all over you, get out and pretend I died just as you did when you lied down with her. Aaliyah/Totured Soul — Kyra Gates

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always ... always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person. — Rod Serling

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. — Barbara Kingsolver

He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while an unexploded bomb in the Strand was being dealt with. They could hear the naval guns that had been stationed on trolleys between Vauxhall and Waterloo
boom-boom-boom
but the bombers were looking for other targets and seemed to have moved on. 'Doesn't it ever stop?' Jimmy asked.
'Apparently not.'
'It's safer in the army,' he laughed. — Kate Atkinson

Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go. — Utah Phillips