Thosere Quotes & Sayings

It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths. — Heinz Linge

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both. — Roger Moore

The traffic was heavy, carriages, cabs, wagons, carts of every description passing by, splashing the water out of the gutters, wheels hissing on the wet road, horses dripping, sodden hides dark. Drivers sat hunched with collars up and hats down in a futile attempt to keep the cold rain from running down their necks, hands clenched on the reins. — Anne Perry

You don't count the dead, when god's on your side. — Bob Dylan

Education is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the elements of human consciousness. — Abhijit Naskar

The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were walking or sitting outside. Around five the sky clouded over and at six it began to rain. The streets cleared all at once. I had the thought that if it was as if autumn had unsheathed a claw and scratched: everything was coming apart. The tourists running on the sidewalks in search of shelter, the shopkeepers pulling tarps over the merchandise displayed in the street, the increasing number of shop windows closed until next summer. Whether I felt pity or scorn when I saw this, I don't know. Detached from any external stimulus, the only thing I could see or feel with any clarity was myself. Everything else had been bombarded by something dark; movie sets consigned to dust and oblivion, as if for good. — Roberto Bolano

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. — Ellen DeGeneres

I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee. — Natalie Coughlin

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb - for we have no word to speak about it. — Thomas Carlyle

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. — Harry S. Truman

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances. — Ellen Glasgow

Obviously on a basic level, unlike other media, if a player does not control the game, there is no experience. — Matthew Wysocki