Sodding British Slang Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early. — Wolfgang Paul

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

There is nothing wrong with people that reasoning with them won't aggravate! — Sam Horn

His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship. — Victor Hugo

You are your best thing — Toni Morrison

The thing about good girls is that just because they are good, it doesn't mean they don't ever consider being bad. — Gwendolyn Heasley

At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him. — Takashi Miike

The boy scout struggled after her with the bundle that was too heavy for him. Studs watched them, and thought unprintable things about old lady Gorman. — James Farrell

I've been so afraid of getting closeness wrong, because I don't know how to do it, because I don't know what my mistakes reveal
maybe they reveal very good reasons for my having been unloved as a child, I just don't know. — Helen Oyeyemi

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

It was only wishful thinking. And whether wishes were made by blowing out birthday candles or on a shooting star, they never came true. — Jessica Sorensen

When I work out, I feel happy, confident, and accomplished. — Nina Dobrev

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, 'These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever of the opposite of a bird of prey must be good?', there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument - though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, 'Wehave nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life. — Annia Ciezadlo