Bucklers Towing Quotes & Sayings

I began running so as to punish myself, left street after street behind me, pushed myself on with inward jeers, and screeched silently and furiously at myself whenever I felt like stopping. With the help of these exertions I ended up far along Pile Street. When I finally did stop, almost weeping with anger that I couldn't run any farther, my whole body trembled, and I threw myself down on a house stoop. "Not so fast!" I said. And to torture myself right, I stood up again and forced myself to stand there, laughing at myself and gloating over my own fatigue. Finally, after a few minutes I nodded and so gave myself permission to sit down; however, I chose the most uncomfortable spot on the stoop. — Knut Hamsun

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. — William Golding

Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody. — Dorothy Baker

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation. — Michael Silverblatt

There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World. — Katy Evans

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here. — Joel Osteen

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. — William Dean Howells

Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it? — Brian Friel

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. — Dan Simmons