Peter Carruthers Quotes & Sayings

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922] — Vladimir Lenin

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself. — Rihanna

Discipline is an index to doctrine. — Tertullian

If you are reading a book that can increase your understanding, it stands to reason that not all of its words will be completely intelligible to you. If you proceed as if they were all ordinary words, all on the same level of general intelligibility as the words of a newspaper article, you will make no headway toward interpretation of the book. You might just as well be reading a newspaper, for the book cannot enlighten you if you do not try to understand it. — Mortimer J. Adler

Be content to be what you are; shiny stones and silver bangles only make you look what you really are. — Tiny Tim

If Ricky Schroder and Gary Coleman had a fight on
television with pool cues, who would win?
1) Ricky Schroder
2) Gary Coleman
3) The television viewing public — David Letterman

Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending — Eoin Colfer

What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it. — Linda Greenlaw

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny — Patricia Lynne

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role. — Mason Cooley

As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her. — Daniel Cawdry

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place. — Amanda Seyfried

While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business. — John Brabender

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. — Homer

Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. — Lao-Tzu