Roxelana Quotes & Sayings

We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my uncle
Sol
and started a worm farm) — E. E. Cummings

I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship ... As an engineer, I revolt against this. — Alec Issigonis

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. — Sarah Addison Allen

Sometimes we know people who are
too wonderful for words. I am not one of them.
Or you, for that matter, as you well know. — Michael Hogan

Excuse me, sir, but are you Death?" C — Terry Pratchett

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? — Herman Melville

All my successes have been built on my failures. — Benjamin Disraeli

People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference. — Lionel Suggs

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me. — Amanda Lindhout

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them. — Ishmael Reed

High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late. — Anthony Giddens

I am a slave in your palace. - Sultan Suleyman Khan, Suleyman the Magnificent, The Shadow of God on Earth. — P.J. Parker

Yet it was an odd twist of language. Based on the way people usually used the words, Christian was traight and Patrick was gay. But Christian, when he got wasted, was gay if you used the old-fashioned, oh-so-merry definition of the word, while Patrick was straight-edge because he didn't drink to the point of passing out. — Lauren Myracle

Just like a damned man, he thought exasperatedly. She got what she wanted, then curled up and went to sleep.
That was what he was supposed to do, blast and confound her bloody impudence. — Loretta Chase

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good. — Steven Tyler