Laureateship Quotes

#1. I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.

Chris Riddell

#2. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

John Churton Collins

#3. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Alexander Pope

#4. I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

C.L.R. James

#6. I bought a gun because POW POW sounds a lot better
than Hey, put that back!

Joe Torry

#7. Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

Jim Abbott

#8. I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.

Shahar Pe'er

#9. I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

Neil Patrick Harris

#10. We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.

Madeline Miller

#11. Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

Pico Iyer

#12. There are a few things that you have to understand - I cannot give any proofs for them, they are beyond proofs. Only your experience will give you the proof.

Osho

#13. Ponzi had been in Brazil, and then Argentina, where he bought a boardinghouse populated by prostitutes, along with a hot dog stand. He had hoped it would be the start of a national chain.

Glenn Beck