Subbuteo Emporium Quotes

#1. Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Petrarch

#2. All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Michael Specter

#3. Will you teach me how to paint?"
"Just paint."
"I'm not any good."
"Do it for therapy. You can go to art school later.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.

Anais Nin

#5. The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

Oswald Chambers

#6. It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#7. I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

Lou Doillon

#8. I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

Calvin Klein

#9. How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

Jules Michelet

#10. The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

James F. Cooper

#11. I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.

Lizzy Caplan

#12. It isn't hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it's hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.

Marilyn Manson

#13. Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

J.C. Ryle

#14. Science, dude. You really should learn some.

Carolyn McCray