Beeston Hall Quotes & Sayings

Do you dare let your imagination out? — Loki Wytehart

You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
Not in this house. — Amor Towles

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. — Fran Lebowitz

Another anti-theoretical stratagem is to claim that in order to launch some fundamental critique of our culture, we would need to be standing at some Archimedean point beyond it. What this fails to see is that reflecting critically on our situation is part of our situation. It is a feature of the peculiar way we belong to the world. It is not some impossible light-in-the-refrigerator attempt to scrutinize ourselves when we are not there. Curving back on ourselves is as natural to us as it is to cosmic space or a wave of the sea. It does not entail jumping out of our own skin. Without such self-monitoring we would not have survived as a species. — Terry Eagleton

Dream steals from its lair towards its prey. — Margaret Atwood

So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
-Hawk
Who had been Archmage
The Other Wind — Ursula K. Le Guin

There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.' — Allen West

I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb. I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world. — Robert Pattinson

But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business. — Lisa Henry

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign. — Carly Fiorina

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect! — Jane Porter

Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins — Neil Gevisser

there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. — Ransom Riggs

If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music. — Don G. Campbell

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties. — Baltasar Gracian