Wattley Rams Quotes & Sayings

He had come to us only three years earlier, but had already won general sympathy, mainly because he "knew how to bring society together." His house was never without guests, and it seemed he would have been unable to live without them. He had to have guests to dinner every day, even if only two, even if only one, but without guests he would not sit down to eat. He gave formal dinners, too, under all sorts of pretexts, sometimes even the most unexpected. The food he served, though not refined, was abundant, the cabbage pies were excellent, and the wines made up in quantity for what they lacked in quality. In the front room stood a billiard table, surrounded by quite decent furnishings; that is, there were even paintings of English racehorses in black frames on the walls, which, as everyone knows, constitute a necessary adornment of any billiard room in a bachelor's house. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. — Liya Kebede

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance. — Tori Spelling

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card

I am an Irishman, sir." "Irish Irish?" "Yes, sir. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Work smart. Get things done. — Susan Wojcicki

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking. — Sarah Dessen

If you like ice cream, why stop at one scoop? Have two, have three. Too much is never enough. — Morris Lapidus

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. — Michel Foucault

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? — Azar Nafisi