Paeonians Quotes & Sayings

observing the way the rig needed only occasional human intervention to stay locked on the road. Doubtless it could have managed with none at all, were it not for local union laws. Very — Alastair Reynolds

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all. — Helen McCloy

The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together. — David Mamet

Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show. — David Letterman

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. — Will Rogers

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende

Responsible murder is the new recycling. — Isaac Marion

He'd fallen for her - for her sometimes amusing, sometimes confounding combination of strength, brains, drive, vulnerability, and mile-wide stubborn streak. He'd fallen for the whole complicated package, screwed-up father included. — Samanthe Beck

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always. — Mark Cuban

Amish culture is built around preserving and protecting the family unit. — Serena B. Miller

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service - but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay - and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops - Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes - they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they - Darius! — Alexander The Great

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying ... every time we appropriate something, we ... pass another bill ... stating where the money is coming from. — Will Rogers

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity. — Ricky Gervais