Brodowski John Quotes & Sayings

Boxing Day.
Country pubs.
Saying 'you're the dog's bollocks' as an expression of endearment or admiration.
Jam roly-poly with custard
Ordnance Survey maps
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Cream teas
The shipping forecast
The 20p piece
June evenings, about 8pm
Smelling the sea before you see it
Villages with ridiculous names like Shellow Bowells and Nether Wallop — Bill Bryson

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them. — David Amram

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire — Elbert Hubbard

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces. — Tyson Chandler

Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her. — Rebecca West

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction. — Max Brooks

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control. — David Titley

It makes me want to go back and reread everything I've ever read, now that I'm experiencing these things with someone in real life. — Colleen Hoover