Adquate Quotes

#1. I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

Winifred Holtby

#2. It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.)

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Vikram Seth

#4. Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.

Manuel Valls

#5. For it is a sad rule that whenever you are most in need of your art as a rationalist, that is when you are most likely to forget it.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

Homer

#7. My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#8. I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

Edgar Degas

#9. I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Edward VIII

#10. I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

Pamela Anderson

#11. In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ...

Margaret Wise Brown

#12. Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm

#13. No matter how much you reach the moon...you can never actually grab it. Even if one knows that something is unreachable it's human nature to want to try over and over...again and again..not giving up...not able to give up...dreaming that someday that hand will reach the moon.

Kiyo Fujiwara

#14. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

Kaley Cuoco

#15. Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.

Gerry Harvey

#16. For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

Linda Ronstadt