Sugden Quotes & Sayings

Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself
navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not. And history tells of opportunity that came to the slaves who rose to the purple. No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was to know it when it came to them. — Jack London

We exist in the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human. — Steven D. Levitt

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works. — Richard Nelson Bolles

The sergeant knocked up Mrs Green, who lived at New Cottage, the house immediately to the east of the gateway, but she too had heard no disturbance. — Philip Sugden

I only asked you to move down the couch because I could smell your peach shampoo, and I wanted to be closer. — Nikki Godwin

He was revived eight times, and hanged nine.
Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone. Only after the eight hanging did he act like a child being tortured.
For that performance, he was rewarded with what he wanted most in all this world. He was rewarded with death. He died with an erection and his feet were bare. — Kurt Vonnegut

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot. — Rhys Ifans

Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no." If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes." — Louis J. Freeh

Think about all the tomorrows of your life. — Walter Dean Myers

Kingsley, Griffin and Soren all wore kilts. — Tiffany Reisz

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?' — Sean Astin

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!"
Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."
"Big doubts?" I said weakly.
The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said. — Kenneth Oppel

Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him. — Agatha Christie

You know, it set you at war with yourself. — Elizabeth Wein

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner. — Thomas Hughes

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. — Bill Condon