These Inconvenient Fireworks Quotes & Sayings

A man can make what he wants of ... — Thurgood Marshall

When I first started out, I absolutely begged my agent to get me a Poirot audition, and my wish came true - I did a Poirot! I need to do a Marple to round it off. — Kimberley Nixon

His light tone, in which, had her nerves been steadier, she would have recognized the mere effort to bridge over an awkward moment, jarred on her passionate desire to be understood. In her strange state of extra-lucidity, which gave her the sense of being already at the heart of the situation, it seemed incredible that any one should think it necessary to linger in the conventional outskirts of word-play and evasion. — Edith Wharton

[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked. — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

Evolutionary anthropologist Michael Tomasello has argued that it is our capacity to rapidly and accurately acquire huge amounts of information culturally that sets humans apart from other species. — Anonymous

Trouble, Troublemaker yeah that's your middle name

Ooh — Olly Murs

Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us. — James Martin

Do not think that you first have to look at the total plan and progress of the world, if you are to know what actions will now make sense, and where they will lead! — Oswald Bayer

Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Do the thing and the power will come. — Thomas A. Edison

I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again. — Antonia Michaelis

The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up. — Steve Hallett

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death. — Francis Bacon

The widespread joy that greeted Rasputin's assassination confused me. No matter what crimes the starets had committed, I was not accustomed to the idea of rejoicing at a man's death, even less at his murder. — Elisabeth Gille