Nightside Tables Quotes & Sayings

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap. — Rory Bremner

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. — Wallace Arnold

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music. — Tom Jenkinson

Point of view is everything. — Kathleen Winter

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space. — Helen Sharman

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. — Henrik Ibsen

I'm a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I'm an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I'm way behind. — Richard C. Armitage

Uncanny how models in cigarette ads always have that not-watching-anything, not-thinking-anything look in their eyes. — Haruki Murakami

Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family. — Jimmy Fallon

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. — Marilyn Monroe

The more pressing question, of course, is how we can communicate our love after kids keep acting up even when we think they ought to know better. (We've certainly told them enough times!) Here it's common to assume that they're "testing limits." This is a very popular phrase in the discipline field and it's often used as a justification for parents to impose more, or tighter, limits. Sometimes the assumption that kids are testing us even becomes a rationalization for punishing them. But my suspicion is that, by misbehaving, children may be testing something else entirely - namely, the unconditionality of our love. Perhaps they're acting in unacceptable ways to see if we'll stop accepting them. — Alfie Kohn

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection. — Donald Kennedy

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim