Outrivaling Quotes & Sayings

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. — Luke Evans

I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11. — Miranda Hart

You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to — Sunday Adelaja

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably. The Duchess of Portsmouth was, after all, more than twenty years his junior; and there comes a time in nearly every such relationship when the male partner is simply unable to fully accommodate the female partner. Or as Samuel Pepys tartly noted in his diary, the king yawns much in council, it is thought he spends himself overmuch in the arms of Madame Louise, who far from being wearied, seems fresher than ever after sporting with the king. — Antonia Fraser

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. — William Beveridge

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron

Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. — George Orwell

... now you, Miss, born with your own conscience, somewhere along the line fastened it like a barnacle onto your father's. As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings - I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting the answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers. — Harper Lee

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. — Alvin Dark

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after. — George Lois