Plpndn Quotes & Sayings

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene. — William Finnegan

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them. — Aristotle.

Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone ... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from a different generation. — Dean Cain

On the lips of my enemy, my sister's lover, my lover's killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion. — Karen Marie Moning

I had no idea how safe I was, because I'd never been unsafe. — Amie Kaufman

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. — Bette Greene

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. — Robert Reich

Those were big years, big times. — Douglas Coupland

What a great joy is to contemplate the whole day in a silent place! And even a greater joy is to see those contemplated thoughts starting their journey in the neural pathways of the world mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have had to learn about saying no. — Jaclyn Smith

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities. — Brian Rathbone

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites - conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same. — Frank Herbert

Watch carefully. In forty formidable bosoms we are about to create a climacteric of emotion. In one short speech - or maybe two - I propose to steer your women through excitement, superiority, contempt and anger: we shall have a little drama; just, awful and poetic, spread with uncials and full, as the poet said, of fruit and seriosity. Will they thank me, I wonder? — Dorothy Dunnett

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets. — Kodi Smit-McPhee