Bickerstaffe Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.

George Foreman — Davis Miller

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death. — May Sarton

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing. — Orson Scott Card

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Why does IPCA use them if they're evil?" he asked, confused.
"They aren't evil. They aren't even really immoral, per se. They're amoral. They don't operate on the same level that we do. For a faerie, the only thing that matters is what they want. That's their good. Anything else is superfluous. So like how they kidnap people, not a big deal - they want the person, they take him. Or killing someone. If you live forever, how much does one mortal life matter in the scheme of things? When you exist outside time, cutting off the forty years a person has left is a non-issue. They don't even notice. — Kiersten White

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody! — Ralph Stanley

The greatness that would make us grave,
Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Young fellows will be young fellows. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Live your best life now; there's no time! — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Are there any apologies more difficult than the one we owe the most? — Lexi Ryan

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Hope! thou nurse of young desire. — Isaac Bickerstaffe