Redoubt Miniatures Quotes & Sayings

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

By day it is filled with boat traffic - water
buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats
and it's in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.
And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth.
But at night, especially when the moon is full
and the soft illumination reflects off the water and
onto the palaces - I don't know how to describe
it so I won't, but if you died and in your will you
asked for your ashes to be spread gently on the
Grand Canal at midnight with a full moon,
everyone would know this about you - you loved and understood beauty. — William Goldman

Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same ... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can ... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head ... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice ... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive ... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon ... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong ... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side. — Tim Rice

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life . — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A beautiful man is the devil's most potent weapon. — Penny Reid

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it. — Rosecrans Baldwin

When turkeys mate they think of swans. — Johnny Carson

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work ... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with. — Claude Monet

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama. — Newt Gingrich

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting. — Betty White

I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude. — Katie Price

My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing — Abraham Maslow

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time. — Tom Baker

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them. — Claudia Schiffer