Verifying Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing. — Drew Barrymore

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away. — Jenny Diski

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane. — Frederick Lenz

Even after years of war, some men retained scruples about licensed
homicide. [ ... ] Lieutenant Peter Downward commanded the sniper
platoon of 13 Para. He had never himself killed a man with a rifle,
but one day he found himself peering at a German helmet just visible
at the corner of an air-raid shelter
an enemy sniper.
I had his head spot in the middle of my telescopic sight, my safety
catch was off, but I simply couldn't press the trigger. I suddenly
realised that I had a young man's life in my hands, and for the cost
of one round, about twopence, I could wipe out eighteen or nineteen
years of human life. My dithering deliberations were brought back to
earth with a bump as Kirkbride suddenly shouted: 'Go on, sir. Shoot
the bastard! He's going to fire again.' I pulled the trigger and saw
the helmet jerk back. I had obviously got him, and felt completely
drained ... What had I done? — Max Hastings

Fool. He's as bad as Watson, trying to throw himself in harm's way for the sake of the Great Detective. — Emma Jane Holloway

You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket ... We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent. — Otep Shamaya

How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received. — Kentetsu Takamori

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done. — Clive Owen

Life is the art from our inner feeling. — Jan Jansen

The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other
I with words, Hugh with silence
for being each other. We never needed any more than that. — Alice Munro

it to one hour on Sunday morning. (2) Worship God, but let me have your children. (3) Worship God, but leave your possessions out of it. — Victor P. Hamilton

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' — Janeane Garofalo

No woman in any of my cases has ever left a man the first time he behaved abusively (not that doing so would be wrong). By the time she moves to end her relationship, she has usually lived with years of verbal abuse and control and has requested uncountable numbers of times that her partner stop cutting her down or frightening her. In most cases she has also requested that he stop drinking, or go to counseling, or talk to a clergyperson, or take some other step to get help. She has usually left him a few times, or at least started to leave, and then gotten back together with him. Don't any of these actions on her part count as demonstrating her commitment? Has she ever done enough, and gained the right to protect herself? In the abuser's mind, the answer is no. Once again, the abuser's double standards rule the day. — Lundy Bancroft

Grubb goes back, back ... He's under the warning track and makes the play. — Jerry Coleman

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write. — Mathieu Amalric