Westminister Quotes & Sayings

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.
Mary Maceachran: Elsie?
She's gone.
Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead. — Julian Fellowes

It might be added that the concept 'doctrines of men' [WCF 1.10] now arguably includes behaviourism, pragmatism, dynamic equivalence, and modern textual criticism. — J. Cammenga

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual. — Marty Rubin

Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag. — Jon Michaelsen

Sin is whatever obscures the soul. — Andre Gide

I'm a child because I like peanut butter? — Jodi Ellen Malpas

This is so screwed up, they should fire somebody, even if it's the wrong guy. — Gary Hansen

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally. — Elizabeth Blackburn

The voice you hear when you read to yourself
is the clearest voice: you speak it
speaking to you. — Thomas Lux

With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them. — Richard Lewontin

Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being. — Sandra Bernhard

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered. — Alexander Grothendieck

Give yourself a gift: the present moment. — Marcus Aurelius

"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people! — Robert Schumann

If the directions say to do it, we do it," said Maggie. "That's what everyone says. If you don't listen to the Monkey, he doesn't meet with you."
"Let's hope the directions don't tell us to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die," I muttered, and pulled out onto the street. — Mira Grant

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton