Prahran Quotes & Sayings

: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people. — B. J. Porter

Clear clutter. Make space for you. — Magdalena VandenBerg

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. — Terence McKenna

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. — John Adams

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them. — John C. Maxwell

Disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contain'd was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he lived to see himself the last of his sect, except Monsieur B
, of Paris, his eleve and immediate disciple. What gave my book the more sudden and general celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments, made by Messrs. Dalibard and De Lor at Marly, for drawing — Benjamin Franklin

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton

I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people? — Silas House

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). — Bill Kraus

Kind words are sweet to the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere. — Ridley Pearson

Why had I ever cared about happy endings? Happy beginnings were so much better. — Kristin Walker

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. — Jill Lepore

Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on ... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck. — Lindsay Fox