Ranjenik Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin. — Gary Oldman

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. — Charles Fourier

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space. — Diane Ackerman

Life in battle is like a roll of toilet paper....the more you use it, the less you have left. — Charles A. Krohn

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love. — Deepak Chopra

You can be for something and still be damaged by it. — Patterson Hood

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it. — J.R. Rim

The bisy larke, messager of day. — Geoffrey Chaucer

What can you do? You pick yourself up. You pull yourself together. You move on. — Lynne Rae Perkins

It's a mystery, that thing about chemistry, because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. — Helen Mirren

Catastrophe! Of course! Last judgement! Horseshit! It's you that are the catastrophe, you're the bloody last judgement, your feet don't even touch the ground, you bunch of sleepwalkers. I wish you were dead, the lot of you. Let's make a bet,' and here he shook Nadaban by the shoulders, 'that you don't even know what I'm talking about!! Because you don't talk, you "whisper" or "expostulate"; you don't walk down the street but "proceed feverishly"; you don't enter a place but "cross its threshold", you don't feel cold or hot, but "find yourselves shivering" or "feeling the sweat pour down you"! I haven't heard a straight word for hours, you can only mew and caterwaul; because if a hooligan throws a brick through your window you invoke the last judgement, because your brains are addled and filled up with steam, because if someone sticks your nose in shit all you do is sniff, stare and cry "sorcery! — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now — Wilfred Grenfell

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain. — Colleen Houck