Abbeystead Quotes & Sayings

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens. — Scott Turow

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered. — Arthur C. Clarke

Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away — Randolph Caldecott

A little man often cast a long shadow. — G. M. Trevelyan

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus

Finally I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I smiled very gently at the creature. — Anne Rice

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price? — D.H. Lawrence

When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference. — Dan Simmons

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. — Aldous Huxley

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age? — Billy Graham

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against. — Don Meyer

In the middle of the afternoon, when the heat was at its worst, having accumulated around the concrete since early in the morning, I had ten minutes or so of respite in my tiny office. The walls there were blistering. I could scarcely breathe. But I fled there as if it had been a cool, wet, autumn day inside. I was not looking for relief from the heat so much as relief from the crowds. They licked away my being with their idiot tongues. — Michael McDowell

Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything he wanted. But he always seemed to. — Les Martin

I'll perform all the way to the grave. — Patti LaBelle