Beardwood Gordon Quotes & Sayings

If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone. — Benji Durden

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies. — Simon Kuper

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do.
And if you don't
If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel.
And then they make the assumption
That you must not feel anything at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

I don't think I'd want Mickey Mouse pimping for me anyway. — Haruki Murakami

I've always been down-to-earth about money. — Chynna Phillips

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. — Richard Bach

The other two entered the room. Vimes gave his men his usual look of resigned dismay.
"My squad," he mumbled.
"Fine body of men," said Lady Ramkin. "The good old rank and file, eh?"
"The rank, anyway," said Vimes. — Terry Pratchett

Not showing up to a wedding post-RSVP guarantees expulsion from the couple's A list in the future. — Carolyn Gerin

I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino. — Larry Bishop

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable. — Penelope Fitzgerald

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves a good-humoured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr a godly matron who was nevertheless all too human when it came to a handsome rogue. — Alison Weir

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell