Pewter Mug Quotes & Sayings

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk. — Seann William Scott

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth. — Will Durst

When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see. — Frederick Lenz

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. — Charles Vest

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. — Harold S. Kushner

I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now what I want for this short life, I could think nothing better than these long slow minutes, this absence of thought and emotion, of action and almost o sensation itself, this inner sunset of dissipated desire. And then it occurs to me, almost without thinking, that most if not all people live like this, with greater or lesser consciousness, moving forward or standing still, but still with the very same indifference towards ultimate aims, the same renunciation of their personal goals, the same watered-down life. — Fernando Pessoa

When you get to a point where there's absolutely nothing you can count on in this world, you're home free. — Art Hochberg

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat. — John Wilmot

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. — Guy De Maupassant

Planning your life is one way to ensure you are on the winning side more than the losing one. — Steven Redhead

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity. — Emily Bronte

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster. — William F. Buckley Jr.

While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers. — Patrick Rothfuss

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene. — James Gleick

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing? — Lauren Bacall