Quotes About Bootlaces

#1. In fact, though the books came slowly, he was a novelist to his bootlaces, an avid narrator who couldn't stop the story once it had started, who felt the terrors of existence so acutely that he had to tell them and tell them until he'd made them something else.

Joseph Heller

#2. I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

Fairuza Balk

#3. My only other choice was to rejoin my mother and listen to fascinating facts about every eligible man passing by. (Apparently, Mr. Egbert collects gentleman's bootlaces! The wonder of it all.)

Kelly Zekas

#4. A buckle an bootlaces don't buy good advice

Moira Young

#5. Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.

Terry Pratchett

#6. She 'didn't care much for reading', she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.

George Orwell

#7. Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said recently that Hollywood needs to re-evaluate what they're doing because movies these days are all filled with gay sex and extramarital affairs. And I thought, 'Have fun in Congress then.

Craig Ferguson

#8. Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain Badiou

#10. There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence ...

Socrates

#11. Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#12. I was flesh thirst desire dust blood lips cracking feet blistered knees skinned hips bruised, but I was so happy not to be napping on a sofa under a blanket with an older man by my side and a baby on my lap.

Deborah Levy

#13. Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

William J. Murray

#14. Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

J. Tillman

#15. You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

Debasish Mridha

#16. To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

Gillian Anderson

#17. It is important for students to get a - to be exposed to a variety of people. Just like you want football players, you want piccolo players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds.

Paul Gigot

#18. Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame.

Robert B. Reich

#19. You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Stephen Colbert