Talisker Distillery Quotes & Sayings

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting. — David Rabe

To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world. — Pankaj Mishra

Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home. — David Grossman

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema. — Madhur Bhandarkar

On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time is transfiguration. Time minds possibility and makes sure that nothing is lost or forgotten. That which seems to pass away on the surface of time is in fact transfigured and housed in the tabernacle of memory. — John O'Donohue

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light. — Roy H. Williams

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite. — Richard Ford

the things you 'just don't do' and the things you 'just do', in my eyes, are the actions of sheep. Act the way you feel, not the way you're expected to. Say what you mean. — Luke Smitherd

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. — Eric Liddell

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment. — Andy Rooney

Never practice magic when you're drunk. — Assaph Mehr

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms. — Penelope Hobhouse