Prodding Def Quotes & Sayings

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter. — Larry David

Essentially all life uses redox chemistry to generate a gradient of protons across a membrane. Why on earth do we do that? — Nick Lane

Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'. — Margaret Thatcher

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. — Walter Lippmann

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence. — Jamaica Kincaid

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome. — Deepak Chopra

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license. — Bikram Choudhury

But I am afraid I don't, — Louisa May Alcott

Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff ... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power. — Trish Stratus

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week. — David Thewlis

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go. — Jack Kilby

For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to talk to, nothing to do, no television to view, nothing in the street to watch and even the middle distance holds nothing to stare at. To be seen carrying a book in public, let alone reading one, is a mark of eccentricity or foreignness. — John Mole

Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already. — Cameron Herold