Coalpit Quotes & Sayings

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. — Michael Crichton

She lowered her voice as if she were sharing a secret. I think you do like Archer, and you just don't want to admit that you're in the beginning stages of a bromance to end all bromances. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution. — E. M. Forster

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. — Henry Ward Beecher

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all. — Francis Maude

Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man, — Mario Puzo

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I were in the deepest coalpit of Nova Scotia, and had the Rocky Mountains piled on top of me, I would not be discouraged, and I would come out on top! — Joseph Smith Jr.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. — Marshall McLuhan

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate. — Simon Critchley

Again, the political and cultural arguments carried weight, and bottleneck regulation has neither been strengthened, nor lessened, in the digital era. Instead, it appears that differentiated regulation remains the preferred solution. — Anonymous