Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

Hector Hugh Munro

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• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Brand
  • Lovely
  • Even

• I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Art
  • College
  • Painting

• A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Society
  • Support
  • Now

• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Play
  • Winning
  • Should

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

  

  Olivia Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Know
  • Author

• Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Decision
  • Feedback

• Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Like
  • Habit
  • Muscle

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Man
  • Marriage

• Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Discovery

• I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Parents

• It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• 'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Feeling

• I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • House
  • Baby
  • King

• My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Different
  • Important

• In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.

  

  Bernice King
  • Mother
  • Brother

• Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

  

  Booth Tarkington
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Woman
  • Husband
  • Cat