Abbington Banquets Quotes

#1. Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Beautiful? I've always been reasonably pretty - but enough money would turn even a cow into a catch.

Amie Kaufman

#3. The heart is heaviest when it's empty
and lightest when it's full

Helen Scott Taylor

#4. I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

Zara Phillips

#5. I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

David Weber

#6. It is a great blessing to wake each day and give thanks to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

Ron Silver

#8. I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

Rory Kinnear

#9. To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

Iris Apfel

#10. Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.

Tina Brown

#11. True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Mahatma Gandhi