Daiquiries Quotes

#1. I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

Jimmy Page

#2. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Samuel Johnson

#3. When he spoke, his words seared through the air like so many knives, clipped as topiary, crisp as biscuits.

Terry Pratchett

#4. There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Mortimer Adler

#5. The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

Lucian Freud

#6. Government should take management lesson from private sector.

Newt Gingrich

#7. Women are the world's most underused resource.

Hillary Clinton

#8. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

George Eliot