Shockingly Vile Quotes & Sayings

At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting. — Colin Callender

A likeness pleases every body; — Jane Austen

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. — Joseph P. Kennedy

My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation. — Booker T. Washington

They pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their last paradise. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Even where the soil was most corrupt, the willow found a way to survive. — Joelle Charbonneau

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good. — Christopher Ricks

Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,
Boils round the naked, melancholy isles
Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge
Pours in among the stormy Hebrides. — Charlotte Bronte

Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day. — Nicola Sturgeon

In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since. — Mika Brzezinski