Beckfords Quotes & Sayings

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in. — A.J. Darkholme

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone. — Jethro Tull

Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take. — Brenda Novak

To John Keats Whose Name Was Writ in Eternity — Dan Simmons

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human. — Kate Jacobs

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. — Thomas A. Edison

And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands; — T. S. Eliot

In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62) — Frans De Waal

I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena. — Jan Morris

I don't believe in curses, I think you make your own destination. — Manny Ramirez

People think I'm an artist because my films lose money. — Woody Allen

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels. — Saul Bellow