Whisk And Paddle Quotes

#1. I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.

John McCain

#2. But people need to cling to something," Oshima says. "They have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like Goethe said: Everything's a metaphor.

Haruki Murakami

#3. As we walked back to the car, Johnny said, A tree's one thing, but it's a big deal when you point a gun at someone. Basically, you're giving them permission to kill you.

Ian McEwan

#4. He was a humorous, good-natured man, maybe because he hoped for little and expected less and took his satisfactions where he found them.

Wendell Berry

#5. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Brene Brown

#6. Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.

Leon M. Lederman

#7. Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Arda Collins

#8. I finally found me a cloud to float on.

Wiz Khalifa

#9. Together they had painted a rather vivid image in her mind of a man with a bloody sword, guided by a shrivelled lump of ash and ice for a heart, in possession of actual fangs and claws.

Alexandra Bracken

#10. Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

R. K. Milholland

#11. Love Thy Neighbour! You never know when you might need your lawnmower back.

Peter J Morris

#12. I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

Damien Hirst