Vera Brittain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
-
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
-
Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
-
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
-
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
-
I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
-
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
-
I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
-
Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
-
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
-
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
-
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
-
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
-
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
-
Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
-
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
-
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
-
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
-
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
-
The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.
-
'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
-
The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.
-
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
