Peteris Vasks Quotes

#1. Deuce, the maid of honor died at your wedding," Ty said.
"Well, I didn't kill her," Deuce argued.

Abigail Roux

#2. I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Theodore Zeldin

#4. From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

Ian McEwan

#5. A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

Steve Coogan

#6. The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

Margaret Heckler

#7. I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

Sandra Bullock

#8. When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

James Norton

#9. What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

Heinz Pagels

#10. America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

Clive Owen

#11. Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

Paul Fussell

#12. Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Joe Hill

#13. I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

Dick Van Dyke

#14. I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.

Robert Benchley