Fishscale Quotes

#1. Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues.

John Keegan

#2. When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Drew Carey

#3. Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

John Green

#4. You don't go through things with people and not love them for it. It's like those guys in the army who fight in muddy trenches and drag each other out of harm's way and are blood brothers for life because of it all. Only in our case, my mom and I face eviction notices and power shutoffs together.

Lara Zielin

#5. There is an education of the mind
Which all require and parents only start.
But there is training of a nobler kind
And that's the education of the heart.
Lessons that are most difficult to give
Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Edgar Guest

#6. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked."

Herman Melville

Peter Wortsman

#7. The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

Lady Jane Grey

#8. Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.

Umar

#9. Women now seek to involve themselves in the life of their government because their government has involved itself in their lives!

Graham Moore

#10. I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.

Ernestine Rose

#11. Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

Beth Henley

#12. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#13. My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it.

Olivia Cunning

#14. Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

Sebastian Coe

#15. I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

Douglas Alexander