Mary Portas High Street Quotes & Sayings

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived. — Maureen O'Hara

Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with. — Elizabeth Gilbert

All my life, I should not have worried so much about looking foolish; I see that now. Signs matter. And all waves are dangerous, especially the ones you refuse to see coming. — Suzanne Finnamore

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. — Barbara Bush

Vests are flair for men. It's one of the few ways men can accent themselves in a formal yet fun fashion. — Eric Wareheim

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. — David Harsanyi

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe. — Eben Alexander

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity. — John Wooden

From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'
Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry ways to the shore.
-Rumi — Coleman Barks