Chief Manuelito Quotes

#1. I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.

Anthea Turner

#2. William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

H.W. Brands

#3. Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine
A sad, sour sober beverage
by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Lord Byron

#4. Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.

John Bunyan

#5. To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Galileo Galilei

#6. 'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.

Kate Winslet

#7. All of cleanliness is neither embraced nor denied by the taking of cold baths.

Kathleen Norris

#8. The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

Alan Watts

#9. I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

Sutton Foster

#10. I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Rob Marshall

#11. Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

Bella Bathurst

#12. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

Lewis B. Smedes