Adcock Quotes & Sayings

Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole. — Will Adcock

Indulgences should never be hesitant. — Thomas Adcock

I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure. — Fleur Adcock

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart. — Thomas Adcock

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men. — Thomas Adcock

What's flattery?" "Flattery," Wendy told him, "is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn't or when he says I don't need to take off five pounds." "Oh. Is it lying for fun?" "Something very like that." He had been looking at her closely and now said: "You're pretty, Mommy." He frowned in confusion when they exchanged a glance and then burst into laughter. — Stephen King

I think I know you absolutely. — Jaclyn Moriarty

You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems. — Fleur Adcock

When you come upon a path
that brings benefit
and happiness to all,
follow this course
as the moon
journeys through the stars. — Gautama Buddha

She could have kissed him. She would have kissed him, except that she never could have made it mean enough. — Owen R. O'Neill

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:
Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.
Yours truly,
Earl Adcock
P.S. I'm not deaf. — Fannie Flagg

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things
than not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in
and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. — Fleur Adcock

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos ... — Rita Mae Brown

Art's whatever you choose to frame. — Fleur Adcock

An adult is just a child who started to rot — Rene Barjavel

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days." — Fleur Adcock

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. — Joe Adcock

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. — Fleur Adcock

I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West. — Owen Wilson

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes. — Thomas Adcock

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure. — Thomas Adcock

I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace. — Malala Yousafzai

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty. — F. E. Adcock

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps. — F. E. Adcock

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it. — Thomas Adcock

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. — F. E. Adcock

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth. — Thomas Adcock