Pardey Home Quotes & Sayings

Stop kicking me! I do not want to pee right now! — Martin Leicht

No matter how well you know someone, there's still a part of them you won't. You can't. Like, ever. A locked room. I don't know. — Rick Yancey

The people I work with have a very good impression of me for sure, because of how I am. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not. — Roy DeCarava

And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower], one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their [sea]sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly.
But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head; and it was an astonishment to all his fellows, for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him. — William Bradford

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov. — Torsten Wiesel

It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again. — Rhys Darby

Oh It's home again, and homed again, America for me. I want a ship that's Westward bound, to plough the rolling sea. — Henry Van Dyke

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere. — Zig Ziglar

What man has done, man can aspire to do. — Jerry Pournelle

That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art. — Frank Lentricchia

The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage. — Robert Kane Pappas

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage. — Aretha Franklin

It's my time to scare you, it's time for scary story. — Deyth Banger

Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be - if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking - but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don't pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don't pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts.
Lorraine Hansberry speech, "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black," given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964. — Lorraine Hansberry