Cynthia Payne Quotes

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

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• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fire

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Better
  • Whiskey

• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Up
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Humanity

• I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Work Hard

• When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Relationships

• Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Yourself
  • Others
  • Rather

• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Work
  • Career
  • Single

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Quiet
  • Gone
  • Pirates

• I hate musicals. There, I said it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Musicals

• Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Better
  • Issue

• The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Model
  • Celebrity

• He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Dark

• So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.

  

  Debbie Stabenow
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I really enjoy the football season.

  

  Jimmie Johnson
  • Football

• But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweetLessen like sound of friends’ departing feet;And Death is beautiful as feet of friendComing with welcome at our journey’s end.For me Fate gave, whate’er she else denied,A nature sloping to the southern side;I thank her for it, though when clouds ariseSuch natures double-darken gloomy skies.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Life
  • She
  • Friends

• '(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'

  

  Lee Hsien Loong

• I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

  

  Cynthia Payne