Panizzi Lectures Quotes & Sayings

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. — Mia Wasikowska

You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds — Swami Vivekananda

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. ("The Wife Of Ted Wickham") — A.E. Coppard

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!! — Eddie Van Halen

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that. — Jami Attenberg

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them. — Bill Watterson

Until the battle with the Revanche he hadn't thought he would ever tire of gazing at the horizon. Only since then had he noticed that the view was ... empty. — Suzanne Enoch

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. — John Barton

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive. — Roxane Gay

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate. — Craig Smedley

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching. — Nick Frost