Belisha Quotes

#1. England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Bill Bryson

#2. Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.

David Cobley

#3. The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.

Emil Cioran

#4. In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

Katherine Dunham

#5. A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

Michael Monroe

#6. It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#7. The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

Carl Andre

#8. We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make stuff up to get worried about.

Louis C.K.

#9. My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Ellsworth Kelly

#10. My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

Maiwenn

#11. What is it?' Stephanie whispered.
'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.'
She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?'
'I told you what it is, it's a horrible monster. Now shut up before it comes over here and eats us.

Derek Landy

#12. I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Jennifer Aniston

#13. Lose control, baby. Just for a weekend. Let me take charge. I'll take good care of you, I promise.

Mia Sheridan

#14. I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Andy Goldsworthy

#15. She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again.

William Gibson