Ungracious Def Quotes & Sayings

They were lucky. They'd been given history. — Kate Atkinson

So basically, I'm like, who the fuck are you Maria Griffiths? A fucking idiot, is who. — Imogen Binnie

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting. — Arnold Haultain

Butterflies, butterflies
They were meant to fly
You and i, you and i
We were colours in the sky — The Wanted

Good photography is unpretentious. — Walker Evans

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous! — Bear Grylls

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy. — Ariel Gore

Riches cover a multitude of woes. — Menander

In youth his mind had been closed, for every prejudice of upbringing was a disinfectant against pagan ideas. He now had an even more satisfying answer to the puzzles of human strivings and destiny. Paganism at its philosophical best would appear a gluttering candle to a man who had followed the Light of the World, and more usually it was idolatry, mixed with license. — John Charles Pollock

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team. — Pete Rose

We cannot control the mind by trying to force it to be peaceful or positive. Many have attempted this using a plethora of methods throughout the ages, but it simply does not work. Trying to fight the human mind is like walking into a lion's den empty-handed and believing that you have a realistic chance of defending yourself. — Christopher Dines

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. — George Eliot