Backpackers Bistro Quotes & Sayings

Is there intelligent life on Earth? Yours, — Arthur C. Clarke

The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were not ... "
" ... my father's daughter?" If she was not her father's daughter, who was she?
" ... mad," he finished. "But I see no taint in you."
"Taint?" Dany bristled.
"I am no maester to quote history at you, Your Grace. Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss a coin in the air and the world holds its to see how it will land. — George R R Martin

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. — Gladys Taber

He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone. — William Goldman

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference. — Robert Griffin III

Country gentlemen who read in their newspapers the speeches of this or that Minister would mutter to themselves that he was certainly a clever fellow. But the country gentlemen were not made comfortable by this thought. The country gentlemen had a strong suspicion that cleverness was somehow unBritish. That sort of restless, unpredictable brilliance belonged most of all to Britain's arch-enemy, the Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte; the country gentlemen could not approve it. — Susanna Clarke

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Love of life lives forever — Petra Hermans

I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter. — Freddy Adu