Roused From Slumber Quotes & Sayings

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. — John G. D. Clark

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon ... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though. — Luke Bryan

When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect. Everybody does apples and birds and cats, he said, and it's boring to do what everybody else does. — C.S. Richardson

Life is just like a game,
First you have to learn rules of the game,
And then play it better then any one else. — Albert Einstein

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many. — Richard Koch

You're very handsome tonight, my lord."
"What's this? A compliment from the lovely widow?"
"A mere observation."
"Why do I suspect that you had too much to drink at dinner? — Ashley March

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear. — Douglas Coupland

Chase dreams, not boys.
Let them chase you while you conquer the world. — Fallon DeMornay

Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself. — Phyllis Theroux