Ngang Qua Quotes & Sayings

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it. — Carrie Fisher

Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here. — Judy Woodruff

Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years. — Walter Reisch

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. — Alex Tabarrok

God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. — Martin Luther

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' — Julie Walters

Look at what Al Davis has done. He hired the first Hispanic head coach (Tom Flores), the first black head coach (Art Shell), and now me. It's not a coincidence. People in sports talk a lot about inclusiveness and giving people opportunities. While they talk, I only see one person doing it. Al is the last person on Earth who'd do this for a pat on the back. A pat on the back would annoy him. He does it for the right reasons. — Amy Trask

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself. — Charles De Gaulle

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years. — Michael O'Leary

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know. — Paul Strisik