Norman Arbuthnot Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones. — Eric Bachmann

So, have you seen Flood?" she asked. "Cop?" She added "cop" with a high pop on the p, like it was a punctuation mark, not a profession — Christopher Moore

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety. — Lauren Graham

They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine. — Derek Landy

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs. — Peter Drucker

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with. — Douglas Conant

When women tell me that Skinny Bitch made them go vegan, my appreciation of the book's purpose is tainted by a sadness that their self-worth had to be bartered to make that choice. — Kim Socha

And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame. — Stella Gibbons

The beatings at Repton were more fierce and more frequent than anything I had yet experienced. And do not think for one moment that the future Archbishop of Canterbury objected to these squalid exercises. He rolled up his sleeves and joined in with gusto. His were the bad ones, the really terrifying occasions. Some of the beatings administered by this man of God, this future Head of the Church of England, were very brutal. To my certain knowledge he once had to produce a basin of water, a sponge and a towel so that the victim could wash the blood away afterwards. No joke, that. Shades of the Spanish Inquisition. — Roald Dahl

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up. — Jane Harman

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises. — Charles H. Townes

To Extend The Kingdom Principles Is Living a Life Of Vision — Sunday Adelaja

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out? — Jim Hightower

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. — Edward Elgar

We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are. — Erin Loechner