Rebecca Riots Quotes

#1. The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made me want to be a historian of Wales and of the world.

Kenneth O. Morgan

#2. I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.

Mose Allison

#3. I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

Kelli O'Hara

#4. The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.

Doug Dorst

#6. One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.

Amy Dillwyn

#7. I never felt good enough about myself. I could be better at this, I could be better at that. I could look better. My work could be better. That whole idea that you're going to get caught, you're going to be found out as a fraud. That's one of those reasons I got up at 2:30 in the morning.

Meredith Vieira

#8. I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

#9. We're looking for quantum donuts," said Mike.

Peter Clines

#10. Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every schoolboy has encountered before he's in long pants.

Paul La Farge