Butterton Moor Quotes & Sayings

People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them will have to float around in the water for a bit, then they'll slowly release. Others never open up at all, no matter what sort of hot water they're in. — Rhian J. Martin

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him. — Bam Margera

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy. — Glenn Close

He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little. — Donald Ray Pollock

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. — Barbara Kingsolver

Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman: — Helen Macdonald

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once. — Steve Rushin