Wishart Quotes & Sayings

A great soul craves occupations and recognizes obligations more in harmony with the true nobility of human nature. — Alfred Wesley Wishart

Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it. — Craig Silvey

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out] — David Wishart

It wasn't was easy as picking one over the other. Nothing ever was. It wasn't as though I'd even had a choice, not really. — Jenny Han

It was nothing I hadn't thought of, plenty, and in far less taxing circumstances; the urge shook me grandly and unpredictably, a poisonous whisper that never wholly left me, that on some days lingered just on the threshold of my hearing but on others roared up uncontrollably into a sort of lurid visionary frenzy, why I wasn't sure, sometimes even a bad movie or a gruesome dinner party could trigger it, short term boredom and long term pain, temporary panic and permanent desperation striking all at once and flaring up in such an ashen desolate light — Tartt

These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine. — David Wishart

It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job. — Matthew Nable

...the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with his intelligence. [Caligula in Marcus Corvinus's eyes] — David Wishart

If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand. — John Prendergast

I think we owe absolutely everything to the fans. — John Krasinski

The most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work. — Agnes Repplier

a poker-rectumed pillar of the establishment [Marcus Corvinus on a Roman Senator] — David Wishart

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy. — Jose Maria Aznar

The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it. — Dean Koontz

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about. — Barney Frank

the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid] — David Wishart