Stupid Gove Quotes & Sayings

What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch ... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself. — Pablo Picasso

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. — Joey Fatone

Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts. — Clark Terry

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God. — Graham Greene

The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. — Charles Dickens

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome. — Josh Billings

I don't see myself in the political realm. — Taya Kyle

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them. — Kathy Reichs

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits. — Adam Jones

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers. — Myriam Miedzian

You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you. — Lupita Nyong'o

Shards flew everywhere, slicing her hands, her forearm, and cascading to the floor like snow glistening on a winter morning. — Katherine McIntyre