Bickersteth House Quotes

#1. I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. No word is too grand or too infinitesimal to be considered

David Levithan

#3. Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

Michael Ian Black

#4. What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope ... It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Lady Gaga

#5. I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Thabo Mbeki

#6. Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

Tarun J. Tejpal

#7. He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. The struggle in the seventh century between Roman missionaries and Irish monks for control over the English church was largely a conflict over the date of Easter.

Steven Weinberg

#9. If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.

John Kinsella

#10. After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Georges Danton

#11. Angels began shining when they achieved discipline.

Robert Bly

#12. Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Diana Vreeland

#13. A woman's lust is for a short time; a man's lust is forever.

Santosh Kalwar

#14. It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Lisa Bonet

#15. Wealth was the power to set things and people in motion; and in America, therefore, wealth came to be frankly regarded as the breath of God, the divine spirit immanent in man. God was the supreme Boss, the universal Employer.

Olaf Stapledon