August Decrees Quotes

#1. The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

Francois Furet

#2. And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.

David Levithan

#3. Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Edmund Burke

#4. I am as strong as I need to be. I am my only master.

L.J.Smith

#5. Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.

Steven Redhead

#6. You're so fucking beautiful, I didn't say. I love you so much, I didn't say.

Christina Lauren

#7. I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere.

Coleman Barks

#8. The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#9. I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

William Boyd

#10. Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#12. I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

Gene Hackman