Beggars Belief Quotes

#1. More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carol Vorderman

#2. I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

Katherine Dunham

#3. She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses than tore at my very heart.

Donna Tartt

#4. I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.

Mark Leibovich

#5. If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

Seth Godin

#6. The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.

Adoniram Judson

#7. I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

David Gilmour

#8. We can no longer believe that after death, if we have sinned, we shall enter hell. Hell has been acted out here on Earth in the time of Nazi Germany, when even the innocent went in their millions to a hell that beggars the imagination. A profound change in attitude has come about as a result.

Brian W. Aldiss

#9. My days keep getting shorter. When I'm a hundred, I'll be going to bed before I get up.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#10. The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

Geraldine Ferraro

#11. I have never felt so alive - so free - so proud. I love my country. I love my America.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I'm getting creeped out. This it totally starting to sound like a horror flick, and everybody knows the hot chick dies first. Let's get out of here.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14. When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Bernard Baruch

#15. A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Michael Steinhardt

#16. The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in, just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.

Dwayne Johnson

#17. You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

Marina Abramovic