Ukroids247 Quotes & Sayings

What was wrong with me? Why could I not just flip the switch and see all the brightness ahead if only I chose the correct path? Or rather, why could I see the correct path but not choose to tread upon it? — Hanne Arts

Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation. "'I think we'd rather not.' Very good, guv'nor. I'll remember that next time."
"Divigation was nice. Where'd you get that one?"
"He swallowed a ****ing dictionary," Corporal Nettle said proudly. — Ian McEwan

Hers might never be calm or easy paintings, but those canvases are the way she keeps herself centered. She needs to create, or she will lose herself bit by bit to her fears and delusions. — Lisa Maxwell

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs. — Rick Perry

It seemed so stupid to spend all your time fighting to get out from under the rules imposed on you, and then immediately turn round and make some new rules yourselves. It was divide and rule gone mad. — Ross Lomas

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. — Nate Silver

Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine. — Elizabeth Moon

Everyone gets to the stage, or should get to it, where it's more important to stop doing things than to keep on trying to do them. — George Johnston

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. — Douglas Trumbull

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents. — Monica Crowley

The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace. — Brien McMahon

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk. — Graham Swift

You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy. — Al Madrigal

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away. — Ian Frazier