Balliol Primary Quotes & Sayings

Certainly I know better than most that circumstances can turn you into someone you've never been before. — Jodi Picoult

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that. — Kate Bush

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

My favourite pudding is a toss-up between cheesecake - proper, New York cheesecake - and apple crumble and custard. Custard is very important, or dark chocolate mousse. Tea: probably Earl Grey, splash of milk. — Tom Hiddleston

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans. — Paula Gunn Allen

If you have many desires your life will be interesting. — Jenny Holzer

I realize there can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday. He loves her, and she obviously loves him, and I can't blame them, because whatever they have is beautiful. — Colleen Hoover

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one. — Racquel McDonnell

I had to arrange things as well as I could. That's obviously a very bad place for the bed, in front of the door. For instance when the judge I'm painting at present comes he always comes through the door by the bed, and I've even given him a key to this door so that he can wait for me here in the studio when I'm not home. Although nowadays he usually comes early in the morning when I'm still asleep. And of course, it always wakes me up when I hear the door opened beside the bed, however fast asleep I am. If you could hear the way I curse him as he climbs over my bed in the morning you'd lose all respect for judges. I suppose I could take the key away from him but that'd only make things worse. It only takes a tiny effort to break any of the doors here off their hinges. — Franz Kafka

This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery. — George R R Martin

We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." — C.S. Lewis

Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur. — Liam Gallagher

The poetry of the new year is problematically punctual. An impeccable guest who arrives on time when you are running frantically behind schedule. Catching you precisely at that awkward stage of housecleaning when the contents of closet and cupboard are strewn across the room and there is no sensible place left to sit down. No, you haven't had a chance to change the guest room towels, your clothes or your habits. It is at this stage that you begin to stammer out apologies and resolutions. The visitor fixes you with a gaze that breaks like dawn over your clutter and chagrin. 'What a beautiful life,' murmurs your guest, pressing an oddly shaped package into your hands. Gladness rises in the heart like a cloud of hummingbirds. Always the same, unpredictable, utterly original gift. You consider the paradox of that as you hold it between your palms. Like freshly kneaded dough: this brand new day. — Pavithra K. Mehta

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire ... the objects we cannot live without. — Charlotte Moss

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go. — Taylor Swift