Wenceslas Mine Quotes & Sayings

Owing to the disabilities of the two major sovereigns, one incapacitated by alcohol and the other by insanity, the result was not what it might have been. Renewed madness was already darkening Charles's mind when he arrived and in the brief intervals when he was lucid, Wenceslas was drunk. — Barbara W. Tuchman

She grabbed her briefcase and took a step toward him. "You don't have a last name?"
"Everyone has a last name." His hand hovered in the air, waiting. He was forcing her to cross the marble floor to meet him, and like a Luna moth drawn to a midnight moon, she drifted toward him.
When she reached him, she took his hand and looked up into his face. "Is it Jones? Smith? Or Brown?"
His lips twitched. "None of the above."
"And you won't tell me?"
"It's not necessary information."
She tilted her head, studying his angular features. "You don't look like an Adrian."
His smile broadened. "Imagine that."
"More like a Carlos, or a Juan, or a Diego."
"Those are Hispanic names."
"Aren't you Hispanic?"
"I'm anything you want me to be. — Shelby Reed

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name. — Rumi

You leave that life out there," he said, motioning to the street. "You cross the threshold of your home and that's it. Don't bring any of that into your home. Ever. — Frank Lucas

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu. — Moliere

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig. — Suzanne Collins

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens. — The Notorious B.I.G.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. — Thomas A Kempis

In foreign policy, managing a situation in a manner that fails to address core or what are sometimes described as final status issues can be preferable to attempting to bring about a solution sure to be unacceptable to one or more of the parties and that could as a result provoke a dangerous response. Economics, — Richard Haass

Good King Wenceslas tastes great; We might as well eat Stephen, When the brains lay round about, Toasted crisp and bleedin'. Brightly shown the moon that night, Though the virus cruel. When a poor man came in sight, He made fine undead fuel. — Michael P. Spradlin

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different. — Colin Quinn

I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous. — Kevin Daniels