Prezzies Presentations Quotes & Sayings

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side. — John Banville

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. — Frederick Douglass

Prosecutors often wince when they have to take a child abuser to trial, because usually the only witnesses they can use are children who are terrified at the prospect of testifying against their parents. — James Lee Burke

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. — Seneca The Younger

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended — David Chase

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it. — Judi Dench

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet. — Oscar Wilde

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know ... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember. — Diane Setterfield

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time. — Kevin Keck

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission. — Joseph Goebbels

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle. — Matthew Williamson

I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. — Victor Hugo

My older brother's really good at making fun of me for just being a workaholic and never taking time for myself. Even when we go on vacation, I'm always working. — Nikki Reed