Spidey Verse Quotes & Sayings

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.' — Cate Blanchett

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse. — William Carey

I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife. — Bill Atkinson

A good leader ... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking. — Haile Selassie

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value. — Scott Adams

To be a statesman, you must first get elected. — J. William Fulbright

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. — Toni Braxton

And now you've been so fucking spoiled by things coming to you so easily that you think everything's just going to happen for you. — Hanya Yanagihara

I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars! — Thomas Hardy

The end of something, that specific mid-century American upper-middle-class WASP East Coast thing, the mercantile remnant of the Puritans, the ruling class tossed up by the Civil War and westward expansion, a whole litany of crimes now lost within the comforts of civilization, harmless as a lullaby... I felt nothing but regret. I do not suffer loss well... Their dark and unfortunate masterpiece, the Vietnam War...dislodged, then replaced...powerful now only in the heads of their children, the children of Little America... When we die, they'll vanish forever. — Henry Bromell

She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those monsters of ancient times whose fearful domains were covered with skeletons, she rested her feet on human skulls and was surrounded by catastrophes...The fly that had come from the dungheap of the slums, carrying the ferment of social decay, had poisoned all these men simply by alighting on them. It was fitting and just. She had avenged the beggars and outcasts of her world. And while, as it were, her sex rose in a halo of glory and blazed down on her prostrate victims like a rising sun shining down on a field of carnage, she remained as unconscious of her actions as a splendid animal, ignorant of the havoc she had wreaked, and as good-natured as ever. — Emile Zola

If you believe that you will believe anything. — Duke Of Wellington

I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. — W. Somerset Maugham