Besley Hill Quotes & Sayings

It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of good work for me. — Lee Child

Composing is improvisation slowed down. — Wayne Shorter

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. — David Chipperfield

Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can. — Roxane Gay

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. — John Frusciante

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. — Henry Giroux

It takes a great man to be a good listener. — Calvin Coolidge

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one. — David Mitchell

It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it. — Alexi Murdoch

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children. — Kimberly Quinn

Leather-covered notebook and a gold ink-pencil. Immediately — George Orwell

Do not touch those
who would turn
your tenderness
into weakness. — Emma Bleker

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief. — H. Rap Brown

he dislikes "a boy who sleeps around. — Edith Hall

All you have control over is this moment. Chase it. — Anna Kay Akana