Waxedexceedingmighty Quotes & Sayings

My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs. — Ike Barinholtz

The avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise — David Fairchild

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids ... — Edith Wharton

Confidence is the only bond of friendship. — Publilius Syrus

I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

You can say the same thing nicely. — Peggy Sue Wells

Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore. — Markus Zusak

It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really. — Lorrie Moore

I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a marriage together till death do you part- which I think should be the aim, even if it can't always succeed- without trying to do it to please other people. A good marriage is whatever suits the participants, and our marriage suited us fine. — Lynn Barber

My aim is a simple one. It is to smash the pedestal of boring upon which modern novelists and their books stand. — Joshua Humphreys

Pan is right," he thought. "Death can ruin a man's life even though he go on breathing. — Tom Robbins

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player. — Wayne Rooney

It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept. — James C. Collins

Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae! — Neal Stephenson

My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. — John Cage

I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry. — Cameron Diaz