Viola Hastings Quotes & Sayings

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. — Mark Thomas

I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time. — Steve Martin

... an implicit assumption is always: what will happen next already happened (exactly or approximately) in the past. — Henk W. Broer

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink. — R. Scott Bakker

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it. — John Updike

We have concluded that "Intelligent Design" is not science, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents. — Jon Jones

This kiss was better than any climb or bungee jump or zip line. Better than any other kiss. Damn him. — Robin Bielman

Mabel, I manscape," he says in a very offended voice. — Lily Morton

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. — Diane Johnson

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. — Ann Rutherford

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men. — Robert Baden-Powell