Thegnship Quotes & Sayings

Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years. — Lisa Edelstein

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it. — Charles Caleb Colton

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us. — Jonathan Haidt

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied — Edward Jenks

I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour! — Carey Mulligan

Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures. — Jasper Fforde

The next Google is more likely going to come from outside the U.S. Whether it's in Europe, I am not sure. A lot of things have to change. — Danny Rimer

Perfect beauty is so rare, its effect so magical! — Anna Katharine Green

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier. — Lori Greiner

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and ... everybody's hot — Paris Hilton

Metal rusts, music lasts forever. — Patrick Rothfuss

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson

Swelter, as soon as he saw who it was, stopped dead, and across his face little billows of flesh ran swiftly here and there until, as though they had determined to adhere to the same impulse, they swept up into both oceans of soft cheek, leaving between them a vacuum, a gaping segment like a slice cut from a melon. It was horrible. It was as though nature had lost control. As though the smile, as a concept, as a manifestation of pleasure, had been a mistake, for here on the face of Swelter the idea had been abused. — Mervyn Peake

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies. — James Packer