Beckford Place Quotes & Sayings

If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah") — William Beckford

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. — John C. Maxwell

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads. — Neil Gaiman

When you find what you want in life, you just gotta go for it. — Chris Coppernoll

When someone can love without judging, he is truly wise. — Debasish Mridha

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. — Alice Walker

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life! — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences. — Abigail McCarthy

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school! — Danica McKellar

Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women. — Paula Hawkins

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet. — John Berryman

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too. — Meg Wolitzer

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear. — Indu Muralidharan

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops. — Jonathan Lethem

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria. — Michelle Dockery