Squiffy Quotes

#1. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Graham Greene

#2. I just didn't spend enough time with my job.

Dallin H. Oaks

#3. I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Tony Abbott

#4. Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#5. Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

Andy Behrman

#6. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!

Stephen Richards

#7. An eye for an eye is elemental.

Lou Reed

#8. The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.

Anthony Buckeridge

#9. All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Karen Traviss

#10. My favourite scent ... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.

Marie Helvin

#11. When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

Saina Nehwal

#12. In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do.

Rick Scott

#13. I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.

Ally Condie

#14. To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

Anonymous

#15. We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

Slavoj Zizek

#16. Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Georg Simmel