Barraband Parrot Quotes & Sayings

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow. — Alexander Smith

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. — Brock Yates

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building. — Chris Eigeman

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening. — Tim Ferriss

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing. — Ricky Ponting

I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man. — Santosh Kalwar

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region. — Margaret Atwood

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you. — Marcus Aurelius

Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment. — Narendra Modi

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions. — David Suzuki

I see a tongue! Some asshole is licking my peephole. — Mark Tufo

The girl wondered if her parents had been right to protect her from everything, if they had been right not to explain why so many things had changed for them since the start of the war... Nobody would tell her. Nobody would explain. She hated being treated like a baby. She hated the voices being lowered when she entered the room. If they had told her, if they had told her everything they knew, wouldn't that have made today easier? — Tatiana De Rosnay

Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him. — V. Theia

Corruption is never compulsory. — Sheldon Vanauken

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company. — George Gordon Byron