Twigged British Slang Quotes & Sayings

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways. — Carl Sagan

One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel. — Elizabeth Ann Patterson

All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result of work accomplished by the human spirit, no matter what the material facts that may have stimulated it (a walk, a night of love, a social drama), of a sort of discovery in the world of the spirit, of the emotions, made by the human intelligence, so that the value of a book is never in the material presented by the writer, but in the nature of the operation he performs upon it. — Marcel Proust

I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there. — Chris Stapleton

The growing social consciousness of the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) can be found throughout the Austen Universe. While the Lady wrote about the gentry, she, none-the-less, was speaking to the human condition. Class is an imaginary distinction conferring no better manners on the "haves" and no lesser nobility on the "have-nots" and that the deepest human emotions are universal. — Don Jacobson

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours. — Ayah Bdeir

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. — Winston S. Churchill

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle. — Drew Barrymore