Belmonte Builders Quotes

#1. I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Kyle Chandler

#2. The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Juvenal

#3. Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

Sherry Thomas

#4. There aren't many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,' Matilda said.
'Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?' Miss Honey asked.
'I do,' Matilda said. 'Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.

Roald Dahl

#5. At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.

Patrick Stewart

#6. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does.

Eleanor Catton

#7. If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man.

Chris Wade

#8. I don't feel brave. I feel like a galloping idiot, stumbling from crisis to crisis, barely able to speak to any normal person

Jordan Sonnenblick

#9. The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

Jenny Offill

#10. Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

Derek Luke

#11. A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.

Natalie Cole

#12. One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.

J.M. Barrie

#13. It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Terry Eagleton