Scrivens Talent Quotes & Sayings

Are you pro- or anti-macassar? — Peter De Vries

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory. — Emmuska Orczy

I think to always treat others as you would want to be treated yourself and treat every single person with the same amount of respect. It's not often you see it, but sometimes you meet someone who is not very nice to their peers. But when you do, it's a massive lesson in treating everybody with respect. — Christine Bottomley

The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions. — Adolf Hitler

Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York. — William Shakespeare

Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using techniques that are horribly destructive. We know they don't work. We know it's not sustainable. — Sylvia Earle

Last summer I spent almost an hour blowing dandelions off their stems towards him, so that he had a chance to wish for everything he wanted. — Helen Oyeyemi

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it? — Steven Wright

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. — Roger Ebert

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage. — Paulo Coelho

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs. — Sabine Baring-Gould

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. — Lord Byron