Roxburghshire Quotes & Sayings

The day of birth is a sacred day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential. — Elizabeth Bibesco

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. — Sun Tzu

We hear the same refrain all the time from people: I have no life. I get up in the morning, daycare, eldercare, a 40 minute commute to work. I have to work late. I get home at night, there's laundry, bills to pay, jam something into the microwave oven. I'm exhausted, I go to sleep, I wake up and the routine begins all over again. This is what life has become in America. — Gerald Celente

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. — Samuel Smiles

His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."
"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um ... " Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"
"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.
Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ...
... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."
— James Patterson

In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers. — Ashwin Sanghi

Was he a doper or was he just a loser? — Neil Young

What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago. — Martin Caidin

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. — Omari Hardwick

There is absolutely nothing to be gained from sleeping with one strange woman after another. It just tires you out and makes you disgusted with yourself. — Haruki Murakami

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. — J. P. Morgan

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. — Karl Jaspers