Carbolic Smoke Quotes & Sayings

Two years after Tolkien's The Hobbit was published I read it for the first time. Twenty years later I read it again and experienced just the same feeling of delight and happiness and a quite breathless pleasure. That first time, when I was nine, was also the first time I remember feeling this. It is a sensation known to all lovers of fiction and comes at about page two, when you know it's not only going to be good, but immensely satisfying, enthralling, not to be put down without resentment, drawing inexorably to a conclusion of power and dramatic soundness. — Ruth Rendell

But one good thing with your brain being sick is that you're going to be really good at keeping secrets. That's a good thing if you're a grandpa." Grandpa nods. "That's true, that's true . . . what was that? — Fredrik Backman

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears. — Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle Of Handsworth

Be the help you seek from others. — Abhijit Naskar

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything. — Melanie Griffith

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. — Adam Bagdasarian

The only thing I have to declare is my genius. — Oscar Wilde

I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars. — Rumi

When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it. — Mildred Newman