Nikii Swiss Quotes & Sayings

I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou. — Yvonne De Carlo

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up. — Mavis Staples

I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order ... Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style. — Stephen Foster

Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love. — Theodore Roethke

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap. — Sandra Bullock

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white. — Kid Rock

We did just leave an insane asylum," Hi agreed. "For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada. — Kathy Reichs

Anywhere where there are humans around is bound for destruction at some point in time, even paradise. — Jim Tan

Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit — Jim Rogers

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. — George Washington

There's a whole world out there, Anna, a whole world for us to explore. — Gemma Malley

See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth. — Ole Hallesby

Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything - from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it. — Robert Pirsig

The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus. — Roy Spence