Scutching Plate Quotes & Sayings

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'. — Cilla Black

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. — Bernie Sanders

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that. — Jon Oringer

167. And having not the faith that is resolute, that faith cannot endure, and because it endureth not, how can he attain unto the faith of determination? And attaining not unto the faith of determination, the faith is not sanctified in him. — Shinran

Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed. — E. M. Bounds

Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Adam could imagine what he looked like: a debauched nerd. — Heidi Cullinan

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career. — Bill Fagerbakke

Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be. — Sabaa Tahir

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. — Stephen R. Covey

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have ... an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises? — William Wilberforce

A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel. He wants to do shows as a way of finding some comedic common denominator. When he proposed the idea to one of the officials at the Jenin refuge camp, the guy just stared at him and said, "This is not a joke to us. We don't think that laughing is the answer." — Harold Ramis