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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
Billy Bob Thornton

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a *final* frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier *to*, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate...)
Terry Pratchett

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out
Winston Churchill

I think animal testing is cruel. They get nervous and get all the answers wrong.
Stephen Fry

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quintilian

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.
Maria Callas

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.
Lee Trevino

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
Elias Canetti

I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.
Madonna

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIII

I love England, one reason being the magnificent breasts of English girls.
Emmanuel Petit

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Gustav Jung

Tears finally come and they make you feel a little better, but the pain is piercing your soul [on a recent break-up]
Serena Williams

There's a million of those self-help books to tell you to just see it and believe it and it's going to happen. That's a great policy
James Blake

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz

There is no good time for friendlies, and probably not at the start of the season when you've just played in the opening Premiership match
Alan Hansen

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead

There were a couple of girls shouting at me from the floor. At first I thought they fancied me but then I worked out they were shouting at me to miss. I don't really listen to women when they shout at me. If I was at home with the wife I'd just go to the bedroom and ignore her.
Peter Manley

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music
George Lillo

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W Somerset Maugham

The shock of the news: seven historic exhibitions of modern art. (Title of book)
Ian Dunlop

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil

When people come together, go to each other's country, and watch a conflict being played out on the field of sport, as opposed to the field of battle... then why can't that same spirit, that same philosophy, infect other aspects of relations? [Hoping India and Pakistan would develop their relationship off the pitch]
Colin Powell

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it.
Rona Barrett

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
Stanley Baldwin

The Americans ought to be ashamed of themselves for letting their medals be won by Negroes. I myself would never even shake hands with one of them.
Adolf Hitler

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott

There is no truth. There is only perception.
Gustav Flaubert

I was somewhat disappointed with the calibre of the contestants we had in the second series, to be frank with you
Alan Sugar

I don't care what people think about the way we played.
Kevin Keegan

It is true that a lot of people fall for the American Dream, but if you want to actually make it you have to work as hard as anywhere else, it is just that you are surely guaranteed a fair chance.
Eva Green

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J B Priestley

We had a bit of Abba on before a game this season. It might explain the kind of start we had
Graham Kavanagh

The camera adds 10 pounds.
Rachel Nichols

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
Casey Stengel

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
Billy Zane

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson

It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
Zack De La Rocha

A place for everything and everything in its place (The Book of Household Management)
Mrs Beeton

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
Brian Tracy

There was no fault or no racial anything meant in any of those comments. It's not in me to be racial about somebody or to somebody because I wouldn't. It was just a tongue in cheek, Shilpa Poppadom
Jade Goody

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Steve Ballmer

It's been said that I need to be careful about making sweeping statements and offending many peoples in the process, for instance journalists.
Frank Harris

I'm optimistic, and I think that today will be the start of a process that will get us back onto the roadmap.
King Abdullah

Come on everyone, let's spread some Seany love! Everyone was so serious in the house that I was just trying to liven things up a little bit with my jokes and pranks.
Seany O'Kane



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