Xenoblade Chronicles Alvis Quotes & Sayings

I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together. — Jeri Ryan

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society. — Robert Reich

Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical sense. It really wouldn't matter much if we started dropping the s from our plurals. Lots of words get along without it anyway, and in most cases context would be enough to indicate number. Even the distinction between singular and plural verb forms is just as much a polite convention as an essential element of meaning. But the structures, things like passives and prepositional phrases, constitute, among other things, an implicit system of moral philosophy, a view of the world and its presumed meanings, and their misuse therefore often betrays an attitude or value that the user might like to disavow.
— Richard Mitchell

Happy people have no history. — Leo Tolstoy

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up."
"That last one isn't a skill."
"Honey, trust me. It's a skill. — Simone Elkeles

he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six. — Lorrie Moore

The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention ... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing. — Martin Buber

I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish. — Isaiah Mustafa

Or a Moonie festival or something. — Neal Stephenson

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also. — Vivienne Westwood

Things are certainly kaleidoscopic, Roosevelt telegraphed. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by. — John Steinbeck

Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I'll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I love living in London. It's my favourite city in the whole world. I love it because it's not England, it's London. — Rhys Ifans