Solennis Quotes & Sayings

When Maryam Babangida and Mariam Abacha built the Women Centre and the National Hospital they did not carry the buildings when they left government. I will not go with the peace mission building. Women should resist being used to kick against the project. If the project was for men the budget for the project would have long been passed. — Patience Jonathan

Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo.
However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else. — Johannes Kepler

He held up his right hand and spread my fingers out in a fan. I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other. — Mark Haddon

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.' — Brian Ferneyhough

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense. — Sue Grafton

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience. — Vincent D'Onofrio

... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer. — Ann Radcliffe

Our house contains all that's high-end and high-tech and shiny clean. And three people who would rather be somewhere else. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Every giant leap for mankind resulting from a technological advance requires a commensurate step in the opposite direction - a counterweight to ground us in humanity. — Alex Morritt

Humor, drama, romance, whatever genre of entertainment you create or consume is only effective if it is challenging to your sensibilities. When the sexuality of seeing a woman's ankles became trumped by her calf, society changed. When the calf was later trumped by a woman offering shots of alcohol from her vagina on Rock of Love, society changed again. My hope for this world is that we can soon run out of shocking body parts and can finally see the humor in our aetheric bodies. — Christy Leigh Stewart

You don't match... so you die. — Deyth Banger

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards
the ethics of excellence. — Price Pritchett

When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

following Christ wasn't about religion; it was an intimacy with his Creator that had him constantly hungering for more. — Lisa Harris

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you. — Tyne Daly