Terry Thomas School For Scoundrels Quotes & Sayings

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school. — Nate Berkus

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all. — William Morris

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. — Brian Baird

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic. — DJ Ashba

I love being creative in all forms. — Loretta Swit

Every man has an inner caveman. Unless he's a flaming queen, in which case he has an inner wild-eyed, jealous bitch - as in the case of an ex of mine. But I digress. — Tammara Webber

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right. — Christine Caine

The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him. — Robert J. Allison

Life - life - let there be life!
Better a thousand times the roaring hours
When wave and wind,
Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
From the Avenger at his heel,
Storm through the desolate fastnesses
And wild waste places of the world! — William Ernest Henley

How on earth does she make the English language float and float? — Lytton Strachey

My father quoted everyone, from Shakespeare to Emerson, on the subject of destiny, and then he'd point out that except for the Greeks, everyone agreed: The stars do fuck-all for us; you must make your own way. — Amy Bloom

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre