I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. ~David Kay
#quotes #david-kay #iraq

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #decisions #ignorance

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

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
#quotes #camille-paglia #james-wolcott

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
#quotes #m-scott-peck #community #acceptance #world #peace

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
#quotes #ralph-waldo-emerson #human #world #education

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree; I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ~Andrea Corr
#quotes #andrea-corr #family #understanding #communication

Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #autumn #winter #seasons

If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs

Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
#quotes #adam-driver #ideas

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market, I have so many vintage pieces from there it is unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. ~Kaya Scodelario
#quotes #kaya-scodelario #happiness #clothing

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
#proverbs #bulgarian-proverbs #opportunity

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

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #smoking #silence

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
#quotes #mark-webber #movies

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
#proverbs #portuguese-proverbs #love

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
#quotes #simon-cowell #snow-patrol #band #music

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #king #reality

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
#quotes #j-r-ward #ego

They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
#quotes #ryan-adams #coats #winter

I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
#quotes #alexander-wang #layers

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
#quotes #robert-harris #children #happiness

We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
#quotes #anthony-doerr #art #books

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
#quotes #emile-m-cioran #language