Buggered Thread Quotes & Sayings

For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born. — Deborah Harkness

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer. — Greg Norman

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, — G.K. Chesterton

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. — J.D. Salinger

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality. — Margaret Thatcher

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty. — John F. Kennedy

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women. — Azzedine Alaia

Lord St Simon: 'I presume your usual clients do not belong to the same class?'
Sherlock Holmes: 'No, indeed. My last client was a king. — Arthur Hall

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be. — Jon Brion

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative. — Deborah Eisenberg