Optimally Damped Quotes

#1. The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

Felicity Kendal

#3. So much of his life seemed to be like this now, a blur of days without anything to define them from each other, like episodes of a soap he watched out of habit, even though none of the characters interested him.

Joanne Harris

#4. Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants.

Rose McIver

#5. Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

Wilt Chamberlain

#6. Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.

Karen Mills

#7. Normal, perhaps, but disgusting. He'd thought diapers were bad. The barfing was arguably worse. Maybe it was an early warning sign of alcoholism: the girl would chugalug an entire bottle at one sitting, and then she'd hurl - and then she'd pass out.

Judith Arnold

#8. For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

Estelle Parsons

#9. For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

Gloria Ng

#10. Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have learned in a measure to pour out their souls unto death, in fellowship with Him.

Jessie Penn-Lewis

#11. All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Nicholas Johnson

#12. Why this meaningless talk about the believer, the kafir, the obedient, the sinner, the rightly guided, the misdirected, the Muslim, the pious, the infidel, the fire worshipper? All are like beads in a rosary.

Anonymous

#13. Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

Dilip Hiro