Shenkin Street Quotes & Sayings

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. — Herbert Hoover

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one. — Rob Sheffield

The school is the manufactory of humanity. — John Amos Comenius

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern. — M.F. Moonzajer

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that. — Rosalind Wiseman

I would dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack. Cause I like you just the way you are. — Danny Elfman

Every step in life tends risky, face it to write a story wen it bcums an History — Bukoye Micheal

If I received a calling to serve in the church, then I have sheep to whom I have a divine obligation to minister and to serve. — Daniel L. Johnson

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. — Jessica Hagedorn

Buffalo is a long way from New York City; but apart from a dreamlike, feverish stop in Syracuse, where I walked and watered Popper and bought us a couple of cheese danishes because there wasn't anything else - I managed to sleep almost the whole way, through Batavia and Rochester and Syracuse and Binghamton, with my cheek against the window and cold air coming through at the crack, the vibration taking me back to Wind, Sand and Stars and a lonely cockpit high above the desert. — Donna Tartt

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. — James Joyce

I felt caged by my childhood. — Christina Aguilera

I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason. — Edward Gorey