Unliveable Quotes

#1. As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

George Orwell

#2. I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.

Anne Spollen

#3. I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.

Tereza Kesovija

#4. Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.

Martin Jacques

#5. I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Robbie Williams

#6. Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#7. Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

Dennis Brown

#8. There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

Robert Turnbull

#9. It is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Rebecca West

#10. Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.

Tom Frieden

#11. Troublemaking is just about the only thing I'm good at

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

Delia Smith

#13. In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

Sy Safransky

#14. We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

Jean De La Bruyere