45000 Quotes

#1. I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.

"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.

Raymond Chandler

#2. The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

Eduard Hanslick

#3. The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

James Monroe

#4. He sleeps for himself and dreams for others.

Anonymous

#5. Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

Lucy Lawless

#6. What are you typing with? A potato?

Jay McLean

#7. Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#8. I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Glenn Hughes

#9. It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Trevor Dunn

#10. So they won't be able to blow out my wanting you, nor the little glow there is between you and me. We'll be together next year. And though I'm frightened, I believe in your being with me.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

Tobias Dantzig

#12. Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.

Zadie Smith

#13. It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

John Mason Brown

#14. Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.

Josette Sheeran