Libels Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for. — Daniel Quinn

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family. — Jessica Fortunato

And tell him I want power over the sun — Jacob Grimm

The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives. — Alexandra Fuller

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros

As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people. — Rumer Willis

Having studied art history, as opposed to political history, I tend to incorporate found objects into my books. Just as Pablo Picasso glued a fragment of furniture onto the canvas of Still Life with Chair Caning, I like to use whatever's lying around to paint pictures of the past--traditional pigment like archival documents but also the added texture of whatever bits and bobs I learn from looking out bus windows or chatting up people I bump into on the road. — Sarah Vowell

It was as if a strand connected that day with this one and the Maker's pleasure was coursing through it like blood in a vein. — Andrew Peterson

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility. — Ernest Walton

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars — Johnny Depp

The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed. 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes. — Hans Blix

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period. — Claudette Colbert

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite. — Sophocles

The family is where most of our joy comes from. — Aidan Quinn