Belstead Homes Quotes & Sayings

People kept asking, 'What's your market?' I've got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there. — Graeme Base

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? — Albert Einstein

Work done by human beings for human beings. — William Lethaby

The question that naturally occurs is "What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?" Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones? Would people still go to work? Would farmers plant crops? Would anyone deliver them to the stores? — Bill Bryson

The greater the sense of powerlessness and the greater lack of authentic will, the more grows either submission or an obsessional desire for satisfaction of one's whims and the insistence on arbitrariness. — Erich Fromm

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything! — Vivienne Westwood

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. — Mark Helprin

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole? — Price Pritchett

My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car. — Damien Fahey

Mercy. Had I ever really understood it? Had I actually believed I knew what it was to suffer? To forgive? — Leigh Bardugo