Paysans Quotes

#1. I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

Tim Kaine

#2. I must live until I die, mustn't I?

Joseph Conrad

#3. No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"

Eddie Izzard

#4. Write it on the bottom of your shoes for the devil to read.

Brian McGreevy

#5. Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.

Stacy Schiff

#6. Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

Pete Townshend

#7. The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

Abigail Disney

#8. If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

Dick Dale

#9. And it'd be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

Stephen Briggs

#10. Are you ready?" "Yes, I am!" Gorik would answer, even if he wasn't quite ready, which happened often, since he was a sleepyhead and a "cunctator," that is, a "procrastinator," as his father said.

Yury Trifonov

#11. When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Livy

#12. Never surround yourself with people who are envious of your ambitions. Decide to be at the right place at the right time and save yourself for greater opportunities.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

Tom Brokaw

#14. Although all those who fall in love do so in the same way, not all fall in love for the same reason. There is no single quality which is universally loved.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset