Asquith Crossword Quotes

#1. I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

Olav Thon

#2. My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

Sarah Silverman

#3. If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

Hyrum W. Smith

#4. Creativity is not enough ... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.

Roger Scruton

#5. I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question ... ' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#6. A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.

Anthony Liccione

#7. Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

Lewis Carroll

#8. What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

W.E.B. Du Bois

#9. I am overcome by my own amazing sloth ... Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Elizabeth Bishop