Velsen 531 Quotes & Sayings

The fish had kittens? — William Ritter

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer. — James Brown

No self-respecting God would allow a good man to be happy for long. God has relevance only in the unhappiness of good people. — Anand Neelakantan

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away. — Gina Rinehart

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it. — Elena Ferrante

I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds. — Rachel Cohn

How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others? — Ahdaf Soueif

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. — Laurence J. Peter

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively. — Wesley Clark

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest. — Victor Hugo

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money. — Gael Garcia Bernal

It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along. — Greg Rucka

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person. — Billy Eichner

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. — Julie Harris

We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics. — Stratford Caldecott