Beowulf Wiglaf Quotes

#1. I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Michael Phelps

#2. For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Rachel Holmes

#3. Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Llaila Afrika

#4. 'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.

Jonathan Kozol

#5. Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.

Darren Boyd

#6. Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell it?

Karen Joy Fowler

#7. I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Jeff Bezos

#8. Don't invest in anything that you don't understand. Do your research first.

Paul Clitheroe

#9. Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason

Gustave Le Bon

#10. Selfies, they call 'em, and that makes sense 'cause even though they're sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an "I phone"? 'Cause it's all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk.

David Duchovny

#11. She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#12. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Carol Burnett

#13. A honeymoon is, after all, a sex vacation you're giving yourself after a massive party in your honor.

Mindy Kaling

#14. The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

Osbert Sitwell

#15. We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

Clayton Christensen