William De Morgan Quotes

#1. I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.

Candy Crowley

#2. I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Joel Edgerton

#3. Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

Alexa Von Tobel

#4. In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

#5. Screw the Silent Brothers."
"No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky."
"Isabelle!

Cassandra Clare

#6. I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

Judd Nelson

#7. A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

William De Morgan

#8. Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

Nora Roberts

#9. I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

Vonda Shepard

#10. A
lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I
believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.

Walter Breuning

#11. It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism - ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world - Death is only an incident in Life.

William De Morgan

#14. For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

William De Morgan

#15. Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?"
"Certainly ... Take classical music, for instance ... Two people who shared a love for Beethoven could become very close ... "
"How about TV?

Charles M. Schulz

#16. This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

David Nicholls

#17. If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

David Pogue