Michelangelesque Quotes & Sayings

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. — Ridley Scott

Either they fall down, or they make me look like Tintin," Ben complained. "It's all right for Fritz - he's the same shape as those plastic blokes in the window. — Kate Saunders

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. — Markus Zusak

Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. — Damian Marley

Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours. — Kristan Higgins

My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves. — Marc Maron

My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally. — Wyclef Jean

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. — Eric Idle

Someone in my country made a comment along the lines that solutions are always possible if you are willing to let someone else take the credit. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If I could make it better I would, he says. In some ways it's a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like it's the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick in my eyes. (Before I Fall) — Lauren Oliver

I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing! — Carrie Underwood

I'm not indignant," I said indignantly. — Orhan Pamuk

Your imagination and thoughts give you power. — Debasish Mridha

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck

You must be very secure in your masculinity to parade around in those budgie smugglers."
"Oh, I'm very secure." He see-sawed the towel over his back. "And I'm happy to show you the rear view of my budgie smugglers - oh wait - you already saw it when you were checking out my ass. — Tracey Alvarez

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail. — William Ernest Henley