There comes a time when everyone wants to re-evaluate their life and what they want out of it [on leaving Sugababes]
Mutya SugababeI didn't know it was against the rules [on being booked for kissing the referee]
ClebersonWe know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose BierceHe doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby BowdenI'm very pleased with my performance on the clay [after great wins at the French Open 2006]
Nicole VaidisovaPeople are in a hurry to grow up these days, but at the age of 18 it is fact that you still know very little at all.
Ben FoldsChildren were chasing an idiot boy up the village street to the churchyard
Ellen GlasgowIf you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.
Jennifer EllisonI am the State.
Louis XIV Of FranceGood taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Dame Edith SitwellI was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'.
Dick FosburyAll in all, scoring runs and taking some wickets was very important for me and just what I wanted to happen at this stage of the tour
Ian BlackwellI've had a pretty good trawl through this business. I don't see the bogeyman anywhere.
Michael HitchcockThe wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Jean-Antoine Petit-SennThe most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone De BeauvoirEach Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
Sam WaltonLike every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!
Kelly ClarksonYou know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type
Phyllis DillerIn the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.
Seve BallesterosI was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
Peter UstinovStrike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy GarlandPeople today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob DylanIt was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job! [after England beat Jamaica 6 - 0]
Sven Goran ErikssonThe kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in.
Daniel DennettMuch Madness is divinest Sense - to a discerning Eye - much Sense - the starkest Madness -
Emily DickinsonPeople remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
Bertolt BrechtBeing an actor is the easiest job. Just say the lines.
Jonathan Rhys MeyersA vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee WilliamsIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsI lost my passport. Then it turned up in someone else's bag [the day to day trauma of being in the Sugababes]
Keisha SugababesMy hope is that one day America will return to our historic standards which were to respect the life of the unborn.
Tom CoburnI didn't take music seriously until I heard my first good piece of music. [which is fair enough... if it's not good music then why take it seriously Alan!]
Alan HovhanessThe police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
Richard J DaleyWhat can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam SmithOne can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto CelliniUnlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair
Edward YoungOur friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson AlcottSchools should have the freedom to decide their own culture and ethos, determine their approach to discipline, own their land and buildings and decide their own admissions policy.
David DavisStatistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig ZiglarWhen we measured heads in the eighth grade, mine was the biggest
Marilu HennerYou see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination
Lady MorganI write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
Donald McKayAlthough my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
Jung ChangApart from oil - which was discovered, is produced and is paid for by the west - what do they contribute? Can you think of anything? Anything really useful? Anything really valuable? Something we really need, could not do without? No, nor can I.
Robert Kilroy-SilkGood friend for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here:
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.
Epitaph on his tomb, probably self composed
William ShakespeareThey say that today's news is tomorrow's chip paper but I'm sick of hearing it. Anyway, they use normal paper.
Jessie WallaceSome people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times - it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Kate ChopinThe true meaning of Christmas will not be revealed until Easter - or possibly much later.
Mervyn KingA fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard
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