Lielas Krutis Quotes & Sayings

All these words, written so long ago, seemed to say to her, Remember us. We were here. We were real. — Jeanne DuPrau

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life. — Morris Gleitzman

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? — Brenda Blethyn

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. — Douglas Hofstadter

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue. — George Will

I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic. — Janelle Monae

Every gift you give, will multiply a hundred-fold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!' — Derek R. Audette

No man becomes bad all at once. — Juvenal

As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall, and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulders, the knife swinging at his neck, and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. -"Son," she said at last, - her eyes were full of pride, - "have any told thee that thou art beautiful beyond all men?"
"Hah?" said Mowgli, for naturally he had never heard anything of the kind. — Rudyard Kipling

A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. — Harvey Fierstein

If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives. — Tyler Blackburn

But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins ... Such is Pushkin's Tatiana. — Vissarion Belinsky

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. — C. Everett Koop