Wavell Room Quotes

#1. She was not one to set her teeth so far into something that she couldn't let go when presented with the truth.

Ann Patchett

#2. In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

Greg Mortenson

#3. If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or no!

Deb E. Howell

#4. I have an EP coming soon with Cardo. It's called 'Glizzy Got Wings.' I love his sound, and he loves mine.

Shy Glizzy

#5. The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

#6. There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

Archibald Wavell

#7. When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

Tristram Stuart

#8. My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

Holly Near

#10. I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life!

Jack Canfield

#11. Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes.

Meera Uberoi

#12. Perhaps I have found out a little about the structure of atoms.

Niels Bohr

#13. When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

Howard Tayler

#14. In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

Jim Piddock

#15. Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Orson Scott Card