Sisters By Raina Telgemeier Quotes & Sayings

It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be. But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in. Carrot could have jollied up a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba. — Terry Pratchett

During war we imprison the rights of man. — Jean Giraudoux

At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were away travelling. It was a cross between a stable and a potato-cellar, and, if I had not seen the worktable with the chemical apparatus, I would have thought it a practical joke.
(Wilhelm Ostwald on seeing the Curie's laboratory facilities.) — Wilhelm, Ostwald

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. — Cormac McCarthy

One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground. — Caroline Stevermer

I never go wild with nails. — Abbey Clancy

History is like a long, twisted joke. You never know when the punch line will come. — Laksmi Pamuntjak

Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same. — Gene Stratton-Porter

When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box. — Diedrich Bader

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world. — Chris Squire

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. — Johannes P. Muller

I'll be supporting anyone but England. — Andy Murray

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas
stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence. — Frank Delaney

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way. — Al Michaels

Being born is a burst of colors...and living life without LIFE is black and white. Expectations are everything, life is absolute. Dreaming is life's wisdom, glean what you can. Living life DAILY without remembering the lessons of the past you will resume the wrong path of the past Mindless excuses become mindless regrets. — Santiago Martinez