P981 Quotes & Sayings

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow. — Caryl Chessman

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose. — Sol Stein

What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false. — Anne Bronte

She was a doyenne of the ready-meal, a devotee of the frozen pea, and believed takeaway to be more beneficial to modern humanity than penicillin — Claire Sandy

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude. — Karl Lagerfeld

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the ... they created their whole own world of music. — Rick Rubin

What's the human singing about, Thing?" said Masklin. "It is a little difficult to follow. However, it appears that the singer wishes it to be known that he did something his way." "Did what?" "Insufficient data at this point. But whatever it was, be did it at a) each step on life's highway and b) not in a shy way. — Anonymous

Ah but' 'there'll be no butter in hell! — Stella Gibbons

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions. — Fred M. Vinson

You couldn't control or anticipate a person who didn't care. They were wildcards. — Mariana Zapata