Liptays Quotes & Sayings

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever. — C.S. Woolley

I don't know what the f
k I'm talking about with parenting. — Felicity Huffman

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can. — Jason Isaacs

I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating tw*t — Jeremy Clarkson

I can't recite the chronology or elaborate on the facts. I can't explain the reasons or defend how we lived our lives. What I can tell you is how the events of 1933 sowed the seeds that fundamentally changed our future, that there was little hand-wringing or emotion, that circumstances were beyond control, that there was no recourse or appeal. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

Ralph Webster, A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other — Ralph Webster

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? — Khalil Gibran

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it. — Marlon Riggs

He felt his heart was going to explode, his body burned while his mind tried to reconstitute the ashes of who he once had been. — Jorge Silva Rodighiero

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom. — Timothy Radcliffe

Design is a response to social change. — George Nelson

The miracles of healing, important as they were, were not an end in themselves. They did not constitute the highest good of the messianic salvation. This fact is illustrated by the arrangement of the phrases in Matthew 11:4-5. Greater than deliverance of the blind and the lame, the lepers and the deaf, even than raising of the dead, was the preaching of the good news to the poor. This "gospel" was the very presence of Jesus himself, and the joy and fellowship that he brought to the poor. — George Eldon Ladd

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people. — John Edwards