Baines Pier Quotes & Sayings

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion. — George Washington

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it. — Dennis Franz

When J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy was published in the 1950s, a woman named Rhona Beare wrote Tolkien and asked him about the chapter in which the Ring of Power is destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. When the ring is melted, the Dark Lord's entire power collapses and melts away with it. She found it inexplicable that this unassailable, overwhelming power would be wiped out by the erasure of such a little object. Tolkien replied that at the heart of the plot was the Dark Lord's effort to magnify and maximize his power by placing so much of it in the ring. He wrote: "The Ring of Sauron is only one of the various mythical treatments of the placing of one's life, or power, in some external object, which is thus exposed to capture or destruction with disastrous results to oneself. — Timothy J. Keller

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dry as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. — Lewis Thomas

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. — Robert Green Ingersoll

A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common. — Klaus Schulze

In the folklore of the British Isles, a bodach is a vile beast that slithers down chimneys at night and carries off children who misbehave. Rather like Inland Revenue agents. — Dean Koontz

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised. — Dean Smith

Yes or no, sweetheart," ... "Um and uh aren't options, baby. — Kristen Ashley

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles. — Ira Hayes

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all. — Desiderius Erasmus

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never had, you must not do this, don't you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? Yes, loved you, better than Robert even, or Renly, for you were the one unloved, the one who needed me most. — George R R Martin

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way. — Patricia St. John