Rhubarb And Custard Quotes & Sayings

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all. — Anatoly Karpov

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage. — Gerard Arpey

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy. — Carroll Shelby

Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political. — Pierre Bourdieu

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion. — Dalai Lama

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise? — George Gordon Byron

It is time of individualities now. Good performing skills are not enough now, you may sing better or worse - tons of good singers are waiting outside - it doesn't matter. You have to be different! — Verka Serduchka

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species. — Douglas Coupland

Preparing to survive a typical day of being Digby's friend wasn't that different from preparing to survive the apocalypse. — Stephanie Tromly

You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of molecules to pass from the bloodstream into the brain. Emotions can easily pass from the fictional world into the real one, so that fiction can feel as if it were real. But BELIEFS are blocked. We KNOW the events have no bearing in the real world. — Greg Carlson

Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful. — Terry Pratchett

Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people. — Maya Angelou

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear. — Douglas Adams

I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies. — Yoko Ono

Hell,' Shane spit in disgust. 'I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.' He tossed her the bat. — Rachel Caine