Panning For Gems Quotes & Sayings

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines. — Joseph Stalin

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Chapter Twenty-Four: Surprise
Better Title: Oh My God! I Hate Everything About This Book! I Want To Kill It With Rocks! AGH! — Dan Bergstein

Her green eyes shone when i asked questions and she gave me the siren smile each time i clued in. That smile only made me want to learn more. — Katie McGarry

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him. — Marcus Du Sautoy

In our course through life we shall meet the people who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,' was the composed reply; 'and what it is set to us to do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us, will all be done. — Charles Dickens

Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way - with awareness, balance, and love — Sharon Salzberg

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal. — Frederick Forsyth

A ball, at last! Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight. — Gail Carriger

Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! — Robert Pattinson

The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.' — Ted Sarandos

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson