Michael Alan Partridge Quotes & Sayings

In the year 1257, an elephant died in the Tower menagerie and was buried in a pit near the chapel. But the following year he was dug up and his remains sent to Westminster Abbey. Now, what did they want at Westminster Abbey, with the remains of an elephant? If not to carve a ton of relics out of him, and make his animal bones into the bones of saints? — Hilary Mantel

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies. — Gracie Gold

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said - the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not. — Meia Geddes

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own ... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. — Paul Vixie

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility. — Mitchell Reiss

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are. — Joan Bauer

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. — Ingrid Bengis

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives. — Brit Marling

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back. — Rick Warren

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme." Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people. " One of his numbers was to stare at the person he was talking to. He would stare into their fucking eyeballs, ask some question, and would want a response without the other person averting their eyes. — Walter Isaacson

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money. — Napoleon Hill

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse. — Gene Luen Yang

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it — Fernando Pessoa