Birgitta Of Sweden Quotes

#1. Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden.

Alain De Botton

#2. I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

Leslie Mann

#3. All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

#4. Memories are jagged little rocks, sharp little chunks of glass, and your mind is mud. Memories sink into it, and you think they've disappeared. But they haven't. They're just lying there, waiting for a hot day when certain parts of the mud melt and make those blades available to questing feet.

Luke Smitherd

#5. That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos - that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished - is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism.

Theodore Dalrymple

#6. My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

Esperanza Spalding

#7. To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life.

Edith Wharton

#8. These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

John Lydon