Quaintly Pretty Quotes & Sayings

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach

As an actor, you've got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself. — Jessica Stroup

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. — Al Stewart

When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we believe about ourselves. — Shannon Tanner

Delusive hope still points to distant good. — Euripides

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. — Sarah Price

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. — Kim Garst

She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't. — Charles Dickens

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you
I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you!
Don't you try and teach me no original sin;
I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in — Ozzy Osbourne

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. — Stanley Kunitz

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside. — Parker J. Palmer

Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades. — Gregory Benford

Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful. — Steven Pinker