Shankel Quotes & Sayings

We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life — Sunday Adelaja

This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the parties involved have entered into the following arrangement: What is the least we can all agree on and still get along? Of course, you can see this means no one is pleased. — Geoffrey Wood

You know how most dogs lick you on the cheek? If you're sleeping and not ready for it, my dog, Joe, will get his tongue inside your mouth. It's by far the worst kiss I've ever had. — Will Estes

This is what they mean by 'ghost town', she thought. It truly feels like a place frozen in time — Jeremy Robinson

To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all. — Jade Jones

It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along. — Paul Bettany

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined. — Brigham Young

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so. — Joyce Carol Oates

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it's actually more like raisins into a cookie because no one [expletive] wants them there. — John Oliver

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. — Simon Pegg

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world. — Daniel Hecht

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago. — Eugene Ormandy

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief. — Arthur Schopenhauer