Straighten That Crown Quotes & Sayings

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice — Christian Nestell Bovee

Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater. — Henry James

I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place. — Peter Finch

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people. — John Cusack

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod. — Charlotte Bunch

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. — Amelia Earhart

Isabelle.
It was always Isabelle. — Cassandra Clare

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return? — Samuel I. Prime

Life experience is the best teacher. — David Letterman

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting. — Jackie Chan

If it be sin to love a lovely lad
Oh there sin I. — Richard Barnfield

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. — Eckhart Tolle

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in ... — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. — Isaac Asimov

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. — Stanley B. Prusiner