Smoothed Performance Quotes & Sayings

Only please, do be careful to bear in mind that Mordak's a goblin. Enlightened, yes, but a goblin. He likes his employees loyal or lightly steamed on a bed of bruised rocket. — Tom Holt

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back. — Rebecca McKinsey

As to your despair -- that comes because you
wish to live for your own happiness.'
'What else should one live for?' asked Martin.
'For God, Martin,' said the old man. 'He gives
you life, and you must live for Him. When you have learnt to live for Him, you will grieve no more, and all will seem easy to you. — Leo Tolstoy

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight. — Peter Ackroyd

There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me. — Bill O'Reilly

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. — Cormac McCarthy

You, in bloom, heart, beloved,
you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyes
and I look at you lying on the earth — Pablo Neruda

'Atlantic City' is very good. — Peter Capaldi

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter. — Damon Galgut

Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child. — Michelene Wandor