Buckworth England Quotes & Sayings

I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on," he said, "and I do not want a man standing in back of my chair, laughing up his sleeve at me while I am taking the potatoes' jackets off." Of pleasure and material things he was wary. "I have never known what to do with money after my expenses were paid. I can't squander it on myself without hurting myself," he said, "and nobody wants to do that. — David Halberstam

The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me! — Jacqueline Susann

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods. — Mary Renault

I'd like to be a light meter."
"A what?"
"A light meter. Like a photographer uses. Tinks had one this morning." Aidan snapped an imaginary photo of me. "I'd like to be able to measure and know for certain whether people were giving off light or taking light away."
"You're strange," I said. "But I think I like that about you. — Amber Dermont

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. — Carl Honore

And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy and under the cover of night. All personal life rested on secrecy, and possibly it was partly on that account that civilised man was so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected. — Anton Chekhov

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. — Florentijn Hofman

Often it's not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us." "You're a funny bookseller, you — Nina George

The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change. — Zig Ziglar