Mammys Cupboard Quotes & Sayings

I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches ... all of it. — MaryJanice Davidson

If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art. — Christopher Nolan

I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness. — Michelle Visage

There is only one thin in the world that is really our own-and that is our will ... Our will is ours for all eternity. That is why the most precious gift that one can give is another in his
will. — Fulton J. Sheen

One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning popular and superficial to be equally damning adjectives. This is related to the current tendency in the biological sciences to label every subdivision of science with a name derived from the Greek. "Ecology" is erudite and profound; while "natural history" is popular and superficial. Though, as far as I can see, both labels apply to just about the same package of goods. — Marston Bates

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field. — Usain Bolt

Northerners, even abolitionists, knew more about how and why to chop down the slavery tree than they ever knew what to do with its sour fruit. — Jane Smiley

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small. — Shaquille O'Neal

Because I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm ... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits. — Steve Carell

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs. — Martin Parr

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION. — Elvis Presley

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him. — Denis Diderot

He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German. — John Derbyshire

You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work. — George Lucas