Niggling Def Quotes

#1. Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Michael Gambon

#2. Many people do not fall in love; they fall in love with the idea of themselves being in love. They never see the other person. I don't ask for much; I only ask to be seen.

C. JoyBell C.

#3. Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

Joan D. Chittister

#4. Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war ... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

James Thurber

#6. It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.

Samuel Rutherford

#7. I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

Lee Iacocca

#8. They say ol' man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He's the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

Colum McCann

#9. Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

Esther Hicks

#10. What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Bill Shankly

#11. People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

Michael Jai White

#12. Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

John Simon

#13. If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

Alberto Manguel

#14. The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

Patrick Henry