Simon Bellamy Quotes & Sayings

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are. — Pat Conroy

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ... — Elizabeth Bowen

I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters — Chelsea Handler

What I've learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you'll find that you put the time in. You won't just ask somebody if it's a good idea, you'll go figure out if it's a good idea. — Mark Cuban

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. — Blaise Pascal

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive. — Susan Sontag

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. — Craig Armstrong

We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences. — John Newton

My life is my philosophy. I don't want to explain my philosophy but my life will explain it the best. — Debasish Mridha

Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them. — Abigail Adams

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord. — Douglas Crimp

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an asshole. — Susane Colasanti