Simmonds Precision Quotes & Sayings

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you. — Tony Benn

Having to talk to people was the one thing, but soliciting conversation was something else. If I acted squirmy or didn't make eye contact, they would want to know what was wrong, and I would have to say, Nothing, since nothing really was wrong. Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express — Hilary Thayer Hamann

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — Woody Allen

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution. — Mohammed Morsi

Is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you. — Vicki Robin

You have no idea how long a year is until you're stone sober. — Bill Burr

The golden rule for the Sabbath is cease from what is necessary and to embrace what gives life. — Ken Shigematsu

Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindings and the whole of each man's writing constituted one book: the true and complete portrait of himself. An artist had one thing to say, and one only; he might flail about, seek new techniques, forms, colour combinations, subjects, but intrinsically he would always paint the same canvas, write the same book. — Irving Stone

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school. — Abbi Jacobson

If there is no awe, there is no audience. — Orson Scott Card