Coalface Quotes & Sayings

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. — Alan Bennett

Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher. — Megan Fox

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal! — David Hume

You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight. — Ronald Rolheiser

Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry. — Sara Sheridan

My books didn't fit a marketing niche. — Chuck Palahniuk

When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin. — Rex Stout

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself. — John O'Donohue

He tried to remind himself , don't think about her! don't think about her! he said to himself, i am sick with compassion — Milan Kundera

Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development. — Andrew Oliver

Angeline made a few more attempts to break away, but when it became clear she couldn't, those around us began whistling and cheering. A few moments later, that dark and furious look vanished from Angeline's face, replaced by resignation. I eyed her warily, not about to let down my guard.
"Fine," she said. "I guess it's okay. Go ahead."
"Huh? What's okay?" I demanded.
"It's okay if you marry my brother."
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"It's not funny!"
"You're right,"agreed Sydney, laughing hysterically. "It's not funny. It's hilarious. — Richelle Mead

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you. — Jones Loflin

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have. — Buddy Rice

Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it. — John Grisham

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. — David Bowie