Sam Kingston Quotes & Sayings

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary. — Amy Bloom

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell

Shut up, I know what I'm doing! — Muhammad Ali

She was more fun to compliment that anyone in the world - she'd smile and say "Gee thanks!" and look like you'd made her day. — Elizabeth Winder

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. — Cornelia Funke

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ... — Lauren Oliver

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason. — Anthony Warlow

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling. — Dan Aykroyd

You promised to be mine," he looked deep within her eyes, "mine forever. — Dana Christy

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go. — Tess Gerritsen

Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're ... — DJ Spooky

The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results. — Benito Mussolini

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. — Nina Bawden

Sensibility is the power of woman. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial white flag. — P.G. Wodehouse

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Sidney Crosby