Mudsill Plate Quotes & Sayings

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood. — Meryl Streep

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world. — Rupert Graves

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation. — Abraham Lincoln

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,
My poor frail heart will have beat out its cry
And sadly miss thy sweet form all the more
While helplessly I stand and watch you die. — Timothy Salter

This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless. — Sarah J. Maas

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song. — Leah LaBelle

Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason? — John Wyndham

I have to do two things at once or I get tired. — Shirley Maclaine

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power. — Samuel Chadwick

Either war is obsolete, or men are. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective. — Bill Luff

Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune. — Edward Gibbon

A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of the geese. — Garth Stein

As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself. — Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn