Rubbished Quotes & Sayings

Swallowing pride rarely gives you indigestion. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, it didn't matter where I was playing or who I was playing against. If you make technical adjustments to cope with different conditions, there's a risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable and of thinking too much about your technique. I've always felt that I've batted best when my mind has been at the bowler's end of pitch, not at my end. There's no time to think about both ends at the same time. So in general it always seemed to me that If I was comfortable with my gear, it would allow my mind to be at the opposite end and I had a better chance of playing well. — Sachin Tendulkar

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth? — William Dean Hamilton

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician. — Bel Powley

He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where they must decide which new story to tackle of the many floating in the air, which plot to bind themselves to for a lengthy period; and they had to choose carefully, study each option calmly ... because there were dangerous stories, stories that resisted being inhabited, and stories that pulled you apart while you were writing them ... At that moment, before reverently committing the first word to paper, he could write anything he wanted, and this fired his blood with a powerful sense of freedom, as wonderful as it was fleeting, for he knew it would vanish the moment he chose one story and sacrificed all the others. — Felix J. Palma

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over. — Dylan Thomas

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism. — Rachel Ward

It doesn't matter where you're at, when you're with people you love, you're where you belong. — Courtney Carola

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. — Laura Esquivel

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it? — Tom Scharpling

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother. — George R R Martin