Wopsle's Quotes

#1. I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.

Charles Dickens

#2. How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!

Jane Austen

#3. Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed into a truer expression of who you were really meant to be.

Carol Orsborn

#4. This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Anna Politkovskaya

#5. If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

Lamorne Morris

#6. I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

Douglas Coupland

#9. I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.

Chris Crawford

#10. Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into the parking space beside her Lexus, like an automotive version of Lady in the Tramp.

M.L. Brennan

#11. True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

Lin Yutang

#12. I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

Christina Aguilera

#13. And there was a voice, a high clear, female voice, which said "Ow", and then, very quietly, it said "Fuck", and then it said "Ow", once more.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Never be limited by others' inability to think of you in terms big enough or dreams grand enough. Never allow yourself to define what is possible for you in your life by others' limited vision of what they believe is possible for them in theirs.

Judy M. Ford

#15. There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#16. As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

Benjamin Hoff