Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes
I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst
-
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
-
I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
Marat Safin
-
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
Barbara Amiel
-
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
-
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra
-
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte
-
I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker
-
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes
-
I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
Haile Gebrselassie
-
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
Frances Beinecke
-
I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
T. J. Miller
-
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
Dana Plato
-
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison
-
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson
-
Paris ain't much of a town.
Babe Ruth
-
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
Aaron Ciechanover
-
Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.
Steve Martin
-
Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
Philip Roth
-
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
J. Frank Dobie
-
We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.
Kathleen Sebelius
-
Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
Elizabeth Bear
-
I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
Sabine Baring-Gould