Prelectura Quotes & Sayings

Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert Grint), sounds like the mating cry of an oboe, and, worse still, the two cease to be best friends. — Anthony Lane

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear. — Joyce Carol Oates

All the media are horrible. — Laura Dekker

Out of control- thats what it was, that's what I hated. — Lauren Oliver

When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind. — William Monahan

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song. — Eric Clapton

He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the river. A ship slid by. Then another. Years later, in exile, he would watch the railway tracks from his hotel and it would sink a well in him, and he would taste the same calm water. — Rupert Thomson

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it. — Dave Brubeck

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God? — Mark Twain

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. — Jack Kemp

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. — Ron Fournier

We seem to be a side that if we don't score we get beat. — Jason McAteer

One event is an anomaly, two is a coincidence, and three a pattern. — William Alexander

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa. — Lisa Randall

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing. — Swami Vivekananda