Myth Busting Quotes

#1. I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music.

Mark Billingham

#2. I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

Kate Winslet

#3. Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.

Stacy Barthe

#4. And the American political spectrum is constrained by the expediencies of a two-party system that suppresses the potential emergence of breakaway movements responding to fleeting senses of urgency or perceived rigidity in the mainstream parties.

Justin Gest

#5. The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

Henry A. Kissinger

#6. And besides, if my soul's impeccable taste in music throws you off, then learn to tune me out.

Victoria Schwab

#7. Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.

Lauren Henderson

#8. The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie
could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

Mark Twain

#10. I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.

Danielle Schneider

#11. The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.

George R R Martin

#12. Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.

Jay Leno

#13. Ninghua, Chingliu, Kueihua--
What narrow paths, deep woods and slippery moss!
Whither are we bound today?
Straight to the foot of Wuyi Mountain.
To the mountain, the foot of the mountain,
Red flags stream in the wind in a blaze of glory

Mao Zedong

#14. The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

Gregory David Roberts

#15. No house should ever be on any hill ... It should be of the hill.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#16. The newly developed snarky side of my personality wanted to tell him 'There's no crying in vamp battles.

Robyn Jones