Recomponent Quotes & Sayings

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater. — Lenny Bruce

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals. — Frank Dobson

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin

One's emotions are intensified in Paris - one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town. — Nancy Mitford

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.' — Marian Keyes

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer

I'm an honorary consul general, so I have inviolability. — Jill Kelley

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night ... — Robert Sietsema

I need a suit of armor and the courage to stand behind my convictions to fight for what I want. — Ella Frank

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players. — Benji Marshall

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' — Simon Cowell

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension. — Horace Mann

And the plane began it's takeoff. How exciting it was to lift off from the ground with a jerk and see the houses that became parallelepipettes and the streets that changed into strips and the countryside that was reduced to a green patch and the sea that inclined like a compact paving stone and the clouds that fell below in a landslide of soft rocks and the anguish, the pain, the very happiness that became a part of a unique luminous motion. It seemed to me that flying subjected everything to a process of simplification and I sighed, I tried to lose myself. Every so often I asked Nino "are you happy?" and he nodded yes, kissed me. At times I had the impression that the floor under my feet, the only surface I could count on, was trembling. — Elena Ferrante

He struggles to make sense of it
all this love, so bent out of shape, refracted, like light through the lens ... — M.L. Stedman

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. — Elon Musk