Famous George Formby Quotes

#1. Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

Rob Simmons

#2. Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

Susan Orlean

#3. There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

Demetri Martin

#4. No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain ... No scientific theory is sacrosanct ...

Karl Popper

#5. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

John Green

#6. From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone
used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds.

Jonathan Raban

#7. I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

Dannel Malloy

#8. They said if he'd had two good arms he'd have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn't have to shoot him that much.

Harper Lee

#9. Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, marketing your uniqueness, marketing what you stand for.

Christine Comaford-Lynch

#10. It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.

Tristram Stuart

#11. A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

Edward Hirsch

#12. I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

Fritz Lang

#13. The war must have broken God's heart, Anna. How could he stand to watch what we did to each other?

Dean Hughes

#14. I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

Eric Maskin