Theatrum Orbis Quotes

#1. Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

Thomas A Kempis

#2. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head. Sheri - one

Marcia Clark

#4. The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

#5. Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Daley Thompson

#6. Our new budget now, with no wriggle room for anything extra - not a pot of jam, or a new pair of shoes. We cannot do anything other than stay very still. We are on 11 percent less of was-never-enough-in-the-first-place.

Caitlin Moran

#7. If you're dating a writer and they don't write about you - whether it's good or bad - then they don't love you. They just don't. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring.

Jamie Anne Royce

#8. If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

Norah Jones

#9. It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter.

Emily Giffin

#10. Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.

Israel Shenker

#11. Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

Alvin Toffler

#12. I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Arthur Hailey

#13. I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

Gordon Ramsay

#14. And he has to be handsome, unbelievably handsome, impossibly handsome with a strong, square jaw and powerful cheekbones and tanned skin and beautiful eyes with lush, thick lashes. He has to be clever and very wealthy but hard-working. He has to be virile, fierce, ruthless and rugged.

Kristen Ashley

#15. When the waves of love, extinguish the fire of resentment, then the dawn of peace on earth will begin.

Debasish Mridha