Strehler Paul Quotes & Sayings

I'd Better Not--

A man leaned over to a man in a pub
And said in a voice
'I used to be thirty seven but now I'm fifty one'.
And that's how the years go.
In handfuls.
Like somebody is almost at the end of a bag of crisps
And they tip the bag up
And it's as though they're drinking crisps.
That's how the years go. — Ian McMillan

This is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise what the Dark Lord may be planning. — J.K. Rowling

Was he actually looking forward to seeing Cara again? The goofy way his lips were curved into a smile said yes, and horror of horrors, he realized he was experiencing some sort of crush. He needed to kill something. — Larissa Ione

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution. — Rick Perry

It is perfectly American to be wrong. — Newt Gingrich

I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when i'm by your side — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Her once twinkling green eyes set deep into the pale features looked as if they were the only ghastly crystal barriers between strangers and her soul. — Paullina Simons

Heart ring in the night; Lights shine from your eyes - Marble crunching the snow. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I've had my highs and had my lows but you can't tell me that I am not the baddest chick. — Nicki Minaj

Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down... — Wilton Barnhardt

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? — Bertrand Russell

It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of. — Rick Steves

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. — Quintus Ennius