Pyper Smith Quotes & Sayings

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. — Michel De Montaigne

when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography — Mohsin Hamid

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. — Craig Venter

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. — Terry Eagleton

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. Unfortunately — Douglas Adams

His eyes are intense. Dark. They look like they've seen things I don't want to know about. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race. — Lester Piggott

The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region ... are making by giving a chance to women. — Atifete Jahjaga

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I'm one of those people who believes you are what you do. — Ann Nocenti

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. — Robert Green Ingersoll