It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. ROWLINGOf all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
More Uncategorized Quotes
-
-
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSEN -
I don’t own a scale, and Tao banned the word ‘fat’ from our house. If we eat too much, we say, ‘I feel clogged up.’
OLIVIA WILDE -
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
SOGYAL RINPOCHE -
When all else fails, complicate matters
AARON ALLSTON -
A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve
ALAN PARRY -
The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT -
Never is it the wish of `Abdu’l-Bahá to see any being hurt, nor will He make anyone to grieve; for man can receive no greater gift than this, that he rejoice another’s heart.
ABDU'L-BAHA -
The eye of the storm is the stillest part. There is calm at the centre of a cyclone. There is hush in the middle of a hurricane. The window of joy we shared was the eye of our storm.
BURIED CAESAR -
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today.
ADAM WILDE -
What stupid f – king idiot gets married a second time if the first time didn’t work out?
BEN FOLDS -
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU -
Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that’s not a Pippin thing to do, I don’t know what is.
BILLY BOYD -
Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting – the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.
BEE DAWSON