Transmutable Def Quotes & Sayings

The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again. — Ed Sullivan

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It's strange how a plan can unfold sometimes - an umbrella shooting up at the touch of a button and extending out in all directions quickly, effortlessly. — Elissa Janine Hoole

I do not improvise in heels. — Amy Poehler

Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married. — Samantha Ronson

I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love. — Maurice Nicoll

Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created. — Ellie Kendrick

There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'
my real self
would no longer have them. — Richard Sennett

Jace Herondale plays the piano very well."
"And he knows it."
"That sounds like a Herondale." Tessa laughed. — Cassandra Clare

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. — Robert Sheckley

There isn't another person I'd be more willing to walk into hell with than you. — Lisa Kessler

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained. — John Heywood

About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World. — Bob Cox

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. — Bruce McCall

God is the owner of all things, and we are simply his stewards. — Randy Alcorn