Mikael Persbrandt Quotes

#1. The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.

Willie Brown

#2. If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

#3. Courage is knowing what to fear.

Plato

#4. Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.

Greg McKeown

#5. By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Ruby Wax

#6. My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

Jonathan Evison

#7. especially his relationship with creation. The thought of an infinite God stooping low to relate to and redeem a broken people rightfully leaves our minds reeling - or at least it should.

J. Ryan Lister

#8. If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. Every family has bad memories.

Mario Puzo

#10. Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Henry Rollins

#11. The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.

Diana Nyad

#12. Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

Gerald Durrell

#13. Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Dennis Gabor

#14. It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

Robbie Robertson