Methuens Quotes & Sayings

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn. — George Bernard Shaw

I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"... — Helen Simonson

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny. — Jack Nicholson

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters." — Paul Feig

With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana - the fear of Fear itself. — Geoffrey Wood

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day. — Apolo Ohno

Music is the eternal language of love for every living species. — Debasish Mridha

When you have dinner with the Devil, you learn that either you have good taste or that you have bad taste. — Lionel Suggs

Shave that Moses beard and you might have better luck. Women don't want to kiss carpet, you know. — Kody Keplinger

[Speculating thoughts after an interview with A. A. Milne] The main point was that Mr. Milne took his writing very seriously, "even though I was taking it into the nursery," as he put it. There was no question of tossing off something that was good enough for the kiddies. He was writing first to please and satisfy himself. After that he wanted to please his wife. He depended utterly upon doing this. Without her encouragement, her delight and her laughter he couldn't have gone on. With it who cared what the critics wrote or how few copies Methuens sold? Then he hoped to please his boy. This came third, not first, as so many people supposed. — Christopher Milne

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. — Elizabeth Warren