Tuesday By Famous People Quotes & Sayings

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly. — Clare Balding

He was Adam Parrish, army of one. — Maggie Stiefvater

I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off. — Meryl Davis

To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.' — Quentin Crisp

All the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the mountains and the ocean. All the way from here west was Indian country, and Spanish and French and English country. It was farmers that took all that country and made it America." "How?" Almanzo asked. "Well, son, the Spaniards were soldiers, and high-and-mighty gentlemen that only wanted gold. And the French were fur-traders, wanting to make quick money. And England was busy fighting wars. But we were farmers, son; we wanted the land. It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung on to their farms. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous. — Derren Brown

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept. — Uday Kotak

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. — Alexander Pope

A President cannot always be popular. — Harry Truman

I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win? — George W. Bush

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"What is going to happen?"
"Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!" ...
"And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. " ... some of the best fighters have come from your own planet ... "
"Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked.
"Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly.
"And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. — Madeleine L'Engle