Brooklands Museum Quotes & Sayings

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it. — Jacob Epstein

Wearing of the green
On March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene! — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we're understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball. — John Irving

What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people from all the civilized countries of the world, for thousands of years, can make the results of their studies and their wisdom available to us. The thought which they might not even reveal to their best friends is written here in clear words for us, people from another century. Yes, we should be grateful for the best books, for the best spiritual achievements in our lives. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON — Leo Tolstoy

What is faith if it is not translated into action? — Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly. — Carlos Bueno

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama. — Toni Cade Bambara

A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. — Alan Moore

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done. — Kajol

I don't want to hide. I want to slow dance with you again. I want to dance with you forever. — Sarah Black

He'd discovered that he liked houses. Maybe mostly because they were understandable. They could be calculated and drawn on paper. They did not leak if they were made water tight, they did not collapse if they were properly supported. Houses were fair, they gave you what you deserved. Which, unfortunately, was more than one could say about people. — Fredrik Backman

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is deserved, not desired. — Vikrmn