Austerfield Manor Quotes & Sayings

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
[Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.] — George Herbert

People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally? — Tori Amos

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama. — Katherine Mansfield

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game. — Bobby Fischer

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel. — Kerry Wood

This is who the fuck I am. — Lady Gaga

Whenever someone says the word "month" to me, I call up an empty square filled with other empty squares, days, and hours and minutes, bricks on bricks spiraling inward, pinwheel and diamond, and herringbone patterns marching smaller and smaller to some vanishing point. — Patricia Lockwood

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. — Theodore Parker

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film. — Craig Fairbrass

I made that up. You know Marcus. He got lost once in his own museum. — Rob MacGregor