Makieta Quotes & Sayings

I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of ... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable. — Hugh Laurie

I thought women enjoyed affairs. I thought they got sparks of pleasure at the buzz of their phone, thought they ran around with a glow, their world suddenly on fire with new love. I thought they were women with terrible husbands and unhappy lives, an affair the first step in an eventual ending of their marriage. I thought that they were horrible, selfish women. I never thought that I would be one of them. I never thought that I'd be so weak. It turned out being the perfect wife was only easy when there was no temptation, no mistake haunting and overshadowing your marriage. — Alessandra Torre

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic. — Danny Aiello

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. — Joseph Haydn

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz

In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion. — Anonymous

Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label them as either 'primitive' or 'unsuccessful'? Men have so far survived half a per cent as long. There — Richard Fortey

Yeah. I'm the secret love child of Hercule Poirot and Lisbeth Salander. — Salla Simukka

The Eugenic Society ... is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people. — Bertrand Russell

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest. — Robert Kennedy

Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet. — J.R.R. Tolkien

He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his purview a daddy long legs which had died on it in latitude 44. — John Galsworthy