Kionne Gill Quotes

#1. What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Mary Wollstonecraft

#2. [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs)

Roma Gray

#4. With all the risk and danger television sprays at us each day like tear gas, it occurs to me they should simply open each evening's show by saying, "Welcome to the Channel Two News; we're very surprised you made it through another day.

Thom Rutledge

#5. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

Bertrand Russell

#6. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.

John Green

#7. I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

Mark Gatiss

#8. I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.

David Trubridge

#9. I won't start the battle, but if it comes, I'll finish it.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#10. know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we've become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us.

Andrew Klavan

#11. Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life.

Eden Butler

#12. One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

Giuseppe Verdi

#14. Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

Robert H. Jackson