Passabet Appraisal Quotes

#1. No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Robert Burns

#3. How red the rose that is the soldier

Wallace Stevens

#4. We are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend.

Dan Ariely

#5. When you love yourself endlessly, you will find that the whole world loves you too.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

Raymond E. Feist

#7. A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one.

Ville Valo

#8. It is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

Mary Webb

#9. The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.

Gene Wilder

#10. My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

G. Willow Wilson

#11. The Murdoch-owned 'Sunday Times' has an appalling history of involvement in illegal activity. And it's because they're Sunday papers; they're trying to get scoops that the dailies haven't got.

Nick Davies