Clwyd County Quotes & Sayings

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? — Robert Browning

We called them Tonys, because my dad was named Tony and he could never say no to anyone (although I assume he said no to my mom at least once, when she asked him to stay). — Gillian Flynn

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. — Czeslaw Milosz

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. — Stephen Malkmus

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire. — Douglas Bader

This man was a rogue, not because circumstances forced him to be a criminal but because he was born that way. He was probably conning his mother out of her milk the moment he could grin. He'd charm the clothes off a virgin in twenty minutes. And if the poor fool took him home, he'd drink her dad under the table, beguile her mother, charm her grandparents, and treat the girl to a night she'd never forget. In the morning, her dad would be sick with alcohol poisoning, the good silver would be missing together with the family car, and in a month, both the former virgin and her mother would be expecting. — Ilona Andrews

If you have a fat brother or sister you might be American. — Felipe Esparza

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life. — Henry Giroux

I realised you can sit on the outside and complain and whinge and make clever, pithy observations on what the party is doing wrong, or you can get back into the fray. — Dee Madigan

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff. — Tracy Byrd

Africa will thrive. — Bono

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s. — Terry Jones