Simurilian Quotes & Sayings

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember. — Warren Zevon

A few shots of anti-traumatic serum might have saved him, but he was an unlisted and unwanted passenger. When that terrific surge came, he simply gasped, saw a demented whirling of bright lights against a bloody background, and fell limply against the bulkhead. — Malcom Jameson

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work. — Agnieszka Holland

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. — Jack Welch

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off! — Bob Hope

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. — P.M.S. Blackett

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. — O. Henry

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense. — A. C. Bradley

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm. — Charles Dickens

I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources. — Ahmed H. Zewail

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Only one person," he whispered to her. "Only one thing. — Thea Harrison