Sideburns Tobuscus Quotes & Sayings

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean De La Fontaine

There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I will never do something without having a feeling of knowing how to play it. I've been in projects that I felt terrible about afterwards, but I've always had something that sparked me while I was doing it. — Alan Arkin

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality! — Clive Barker

I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don't want to sacrifice time with my children. — Maria Doyle Kennedy

[T]he prime purpose of the occupation was not to take land or push people from their homes. It did that too of course, and effectively, but overall, with its checkpointed and its walls and its prisons and its permits, it functioned as a giant humiliation machine, a complex and sophisticated mechanism for the production of human despair. — Ben Ehrenreich

I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. — Natalie Du Toit

What kind o' man is he?"
"Why, of mankind. — William Shakespeare

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation. — Brian Tracy

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. — Oscar Wilde

Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth. — John C. Calhoun

A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. — Robert Muchamore

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling. — P. J. O'Rourke

Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge. — Craig Ferguson

Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. — Robert Louis Stevenson