I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
#quotes #alan-bennett #literature

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. ~Melanie Griffith
#quotes #melanie-griffith #education #internet #knowledge

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#quotes #alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb
#proverbs #dutch-proverbs #medicine

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
#proverb #happiness #health

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
#quotes #darynda-jones

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
#quotes #vivienne-westwood #teenage #girls #boys

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
#quotes #michael-stipe #athens

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ~Mos Def
#quotes #mos-def #thinking #independence

To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
#quotes #paul-a-baran #society #culture

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
#quotes #anita-desai #travel

Your birthday will always be remembered in a special way, because you have brought so much happiness into the lives of those who are close to you. Happy birthday to you!
#birthday #cute

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
#quotes #elizabeth-hardwick #reading #knowledge

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
#quotes #robert-jarvik #medicine

That is a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Shakespeare
#quotes #william-shakespeare #eating

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
#quotes #carol-plum-ucci #happiness

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
#quotes #john-calvin #christianity #jesus

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. ~Warren Christopher
#quotes #warren-christopher #law

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
#quotes #joey-ramone #life #happiness

When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
#proverbs #polish-proverbs #harvest

God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #work #wisdom

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
#quotes #william-j-clinton

It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
#proverbs #belgian-proverbs #reason

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
#quotes #helen-mirren