Quirico Quotes & Sayings

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. — Ben Aaronovitch

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison. — Hank Azaria

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures. — Anatoly Chubais

We ignore the blackness of outer space and pay attention to the stars, especially if they seem to order themselves into constellations. "Common as the air" meant something worthless, but Hackworth knew that every breath of air that Fiona drew, lying in her little bed at night, just a silver flow in the moonlight, was used by her body to make skin and hair and bones. The air became Fiona, and deserving - no, demanding - of love. Ordering matter was the sole endeavor of Life, whether it was a jumble of self-replicating molecules in the primordial ocean, or a steam-powered English mill turning weeds into clothing, or Fiona lying in her bed turning air into Fiona. — Neal Stephenson

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it? — Sam Worthington

A designer ... has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous. Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality. — Lester Beall

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again. — Felicia Day

As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches. — Johan Santana

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when the discover life isn't always like High School Musical. — Zac Efron

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?' — Joe Cocker

It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex. — Frances Wright