Beckington Quotes & Sayings

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat. — Jodi Picoult

In Bilaath, I said. Bilaath, or Vilayet as it has otherwise been transcribed into English, derives from Persian and Ottoman Turkish, in which the word meant governorate or district. In Bengali, the word is used to refer to Britain. In fact, one English colloquial name for Britain, Blighty, somewhat archaic these days and mainly reserved for comedy, is derived from the word Bilaath, which was current in India in the time of the British Raj. — Zia Haider Rahman

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it ... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality. — Peter Zumthor

Chapter One: It was quite fitting that the entire town was sleeping when the dream carrier was born ... — Markus Zusak

My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think - you need to respect yourself. — Matthew McConaughey

She climbed into bed and clenched her eyes and jaw and fists - held everything clenched until she could breathe without screaming. — Rainbow Rowell

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark. — Felicity Kendal

the hallway and into her room. We ran after her, "Rach, what happened?" I asked coming to a halt as she was about to slam her bedroom door shut. She decided against slamming it in our faces — Laura Keysor

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. — Antonin Artaud

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker. — Dave Barry

Hers were the pale gray that made you think of nightfall and silver bullets and the edge of winter. The color that filled the sky before it was torn in half by lightening. — Jodi Picoult

Every generation thinks that they invented sex. — Andy Grove

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it. — Tim O'Brien