Samuel Crompton Quotes

#1. An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Cathy Rigby

#2. Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. Who is the more courageous? The big, tough gay-basher, or the LGBTI person who faces their threats on a daily basis and carries on being honest about who they are regardless?

Christina Engela

#4. Life offers a cruel choice: you can be right or happy. Not both. This is true regardless of whom you may be involved with, but it is especially true if there is an emotional vampire in your life.

Albert J. Bernstein

#5. One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Nicole Krauss

#6. What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Aeschylus

#7. My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Ilona Andrews

#8. Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.

Ross Macdonald

#9. If she did experience sex
or something close to it
in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Haruki Murakami

#10. [The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.

Samuel Crompton

#11. I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Marcus Garvey

#12. I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

Narendra Modi