P 269 Quotes

#1. Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269

Doug Dorst

#2. Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Agnes Varda

#3. Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

Mika.

#4. Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

Ted Koppel

#5. Isolfr," Frithulf said, "you weigh a hundred stone."
"Do I? Sorry," and he tried to straighten, but nothing was working.
Frithulf swore and said,"Kari, I think I'm going to need you to get his feet."
Are they running away? Isolfr wanted to ask.

Sarah Monette

#6. Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. One girl lost forever to this stagnant place was enough.

Kat Rosenfield

#8. Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Ann Aguirre

#9. What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

Nina Totenberg

#10. December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.

Alberto Villoldo

#11. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Greenwood

#12. A warrior culture trains for adversity. Luxury and ease are the goals advertised to the civilian world.

Steven Pressfield

#13. Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!

Gary Lineker

#14. I will win you away from every earth, from every sky,
For the woods are my place of birth, and the place to die,
For while standing on earth I touch it with but one foot,
For I'll sing your worth as nobody could or would.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#15. Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.

Tony McCoy

#16. You outlive your wife, then your colleagues and friends, then your accountant and the building doorman. ou no longer attend the opera, because the human bladder can only endure so much. Social engagements require strategy and hearing aid calibrations. pg 269

Dominic Smith

#17. It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Robert Breault

#18. Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Plautus

#19. The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209) ... ... The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).

Marvin Gaye

#20. The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269

Calvin C. Jillson