Quotes About Algy

#1. I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.

Oscar Wilde

#2. God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.

James Joyce

#3. My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

Oscar Wilde

#4. Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Oscar Wilde

#5. She sipped her coffee and brandy, which would have grown hair on a Chihuahua. There

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Damien Chazelle

#7. But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.

Ronald Perelman

#8. I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

Alasdair MacLean

#9. I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#10. Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#11. Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Oscar Wilde

#12. An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E.F. Schumacher

#13. I add a smile to everything I wear and that has worked great for me.

David White

#14. We could say that the word mindfulness is pointing to being one with our experience, not dissociating, being right there when our hand touches the doorknob or the telephone rings or feelings of all kinds arise. The

Pema Chodron

#15. The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.

Bob Parr

#16. But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.

Ivan Turgenev

#17. It isn't done easily," he said with a half smile. "I'm just not one to complain overmuch.

Lynn Kurland

#18. You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.

Benito Mussolini