Royson Tumblers Quotes & Sayings

When I showed her my well-worn copy of Stormy Weather she reacted in a way I hadn't anticipated, she was offended by it - hurt, even. Why was everybody black? It was unkind, she said, to have only black people in a film, it wasn't fair. Maybe in America you could do that, but not here, in England, where everybody was equal anyway and there was no need to "go on about it." And — Zadie Smith

The elder brother is not losing the father's love in spite of his goodness, but because of it. It is not his sins that create the barrier between him and his father, it's the pride he has in his moral record; it's not his wrongdoing but his righteousness that is keeping him from sharing in the feast of the father. — Timothy Keller

Dream pleasantly.
Any dream is possibility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers. — Sara Coleridge

States should have the right to enact laws ... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live. — George W. Bush

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures, — Lawrence Venuti

Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly. — Chuck Lorre

In my book, water was only good for one thing ... when I remember what that is, I'll let you know. — R.K. Lewis

There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like. — Mitchell Baker

Climb upon the hates, and build upon the loves. — Anthony Liccione

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock. — Eartha Kitt

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world. — Herman Melville

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust. — Howell Raines

Cheetahs are the fastest runners on earth, and can get up to speeds of around 96 kilometres an hour! It can pick up speed from 0 kilometres an hour to 96 kilometres an hour, within three seconds. — Lilly Carle