Streatham Library Quotes & Sayings

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know. — Alan Cohen

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel — Susan Wiggs

I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. — Natalie Cole

She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon. — Tennessee Williams

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art. — P.D. James

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values. — Beeban Kidron

Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity. — Edouard Manet

Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money. — Gerald J. Ford

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others. — Leo Tolstoy

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. — Catharine Beecher

I wear my clothes, my clothes don't wear me. — Cher

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person. — Helen Fielding

Online games via Facebook such as FarmVille are for people with more time than sense on their hands — William Hanson