Zoot Suit Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940) — Virginia Woolf

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms. — Sergei Lavrov

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. — Lord Byron

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. — Basil Hume

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected. — Robin Skelton

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one — John Creasey

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. — Walter Scott

I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!' — Julia Roberts

Like maybe he really, truly believes I'm worth listening to, worth saving. — Matthew Quick

This is the man who hopes to be King of England. He has to marry a princess. He's not going to marry some beggarly widow from the camp of his enemy, who stood out on the road to plead with him to restore her dowry. If he marries an Englishwoman at all, she will be one of the great ladies of the Lancaster court, probably Warwick's daughter Isabel. He's not going to marry a girl whose own father fought against him. He's more likely to marry a great princess of Europe, an infanta from Spain, or a princesse from France. He has to marry to set himself more safely on the throne, to make alliances. He's not going to marry a pretty face for love. Lord Warwick would never allow it. And he is not such a fool as to go against his own interests. — Philippa Gregory

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. — Alexander Haig

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling

Do you see the power of the rain? — Ursula Kay Vos

Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that. — Jackie Collins

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten. — Ramana Maharshi