Lloyd Strom Quotes & Sayings

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus. — Phyllis Diller

The key of joy is disobedience. — Aleister Crowley

Hence, we should not be attached even to a good cause. Only then will our means remain pure and our actions too. — Mahatma Gandhi

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do. — Dorothy Height

But this is for the best. I can see that. We were never meant to be. You were never as strong as I thought you were. Such a shame though. You had such dirty wings. Such promise. Power makes the world go around, angel. It keeps you alive when you should be dead. Don't you want that immortality? Or are you so happy with a boring, ordinary life? With a boring, ordinary man? — Karina Halle

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Individual Greeks are delightful: funny, warm, smart, and good company. I left two dozen interviews saying to myself, "What great people!" They do not share the sentiment about one another: the hardest thing to do in Greece is to get one Greek to compliment another behind his back. No success of any kind is regarded without suspicion. Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any sort of civic life impossible; the collapse of civic life only encourages more lying, cheating, and stealing. Lacking faith in one another, they fall back on themselves and their families. — Michael Lewis

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through. — Idris Elba

I'm not the kind of person who digs through things other people have thrown away. — Zach Braff

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting! — Katey Sagal

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment. — Julie Kagawa

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above. — Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would. — Lidia Yuknavitch