Bavington Court Quotes & Sayings

He sensed she was drifting on a tide that neither he nor she could do much about. He couldn't tell whether her restlessness, her compulsive and increasingly unsafe wandering through the city, marked the onset of an unsoundness of mind or an acute, perilous kind of sanity. Or were they both the same thing? — Arundhati Roy

But you have to choose: live or tell. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step. — Richard Stallman

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security. — Kenny Ortega

There's only one rule I know of - Goddam it, you've got to be kind. — Kurt Vonnegut

Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers. — Steve Erickson

Those who don't know must learn from those who do. — Plato

Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cookies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them. (from) The High Window — Raymond Chandler

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Find patience in the breath of life. — Ryunosuke Satoro

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest. — J. Michael Straczynski