Bitsy Von Muffling Quotes & Sayings

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum. — Eleanor Catton

The people closest to him had learned to accept this absence,to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being. — Paul Auster

Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little,
Shall get a plenty more. — William Makepeace Thackeray

As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla. — Jack London

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman. — Elizabeth Montagu

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful. — Penn Jillette

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors. — Judith Faulkner

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. — Clay Shirky

It was precisely midnight when he stepped through the door. Taylor had said he wanted everyone in the Incident Room an hour before first light the next day, but Perez wasn't ready for sleep. As he switched on the kettle to make tea, he remembered he hadn't eaten since lunchtime and stuck sliced bread under the grill, fished margarine and marmalade from the fridge. He'd have breakfast now, save time in the morning. — Ann Cleeves

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. — Robbie Robertson

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath. — George Mikes

All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert. — Sally Gardner

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain. — Jim Crace