Lynsie Mckeown Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. — Jerome K. Jerome

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make. — Dale Carnegie

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. — Henry Jenkins

Dreams often come one size too big so that we can grow into them. — John C. Maxwell

Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.' — Gene Ween

Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power. — Carmen Busquets

Those who are growing great are always asking "why?" If they fail or lose, they ask "why?" If they succeed or win too, they ask "why? — Israelmore Ayivor

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things. — Forest Whitaker

This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?'
What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger again and didn't mind where that was.
It's a cruel world, don't you think?' Meggie went on. 'Mo often told me I forget how cruel it is too easily.'
With his burned fingers, Farid stroke her fair hair. It shone even in the dark. 'They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the cruelty in your world right away, it's better hidden, but it's there all the same. — Cornelia Funke

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct. — John Updike

For as Prometheus, (which interpreted, is, The Prudent Man,) was bound to the hill Caucasus, a place of large prospect, where, an Eagle feeding on his liver, devoured in the day, as much as was repaired in the night: So that man, which looks too far before him, in the care of future time, hath his heart all the day long, gnawed on by Fear of death, poverty, or other calamity; and has no repose, nor pause of his anxiety, but in sleep. — Thomas Hobbes

That's where the public like their artists - exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That'll teach 'em to think their talent makes them better than mediocre no-brain tax-paying wage slaves like us. — Hanif Kureishi

It was not until 1948 that Cambridge University stopped requiring a knowledge of classical (ancient) Greek as a prerequisite for admission. This requirement was based not only on the intrinsic merits of ancient Greek literature and philosophy. Knowledge of Greek was a screening device to keep out the less affluent, who attended British state schools, where Greek was less likely to be taught than in private schools. — Norman F. Cantor