Collacote Quotes & Sayings

Blow, wind, crack your cheeks, I thought. Brian wasn't the only one who could quote Shakespeare. I made it to my room without thinking of any other suitably apocalyptic line from Lear, and I was too tired to start in on Othello. I flopped onto the bed facedown - and immediately I was bent into a bow shape, with the soles of my feet facing the back of my head. — Jeff Lindsay

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. — Mark Twain

A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence. — Octavio Paz

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself. — Lorenzo Snow

Everything had gone according to plan. Which the Doctor thought was great, considering he hadn't actually had a plan to start with. — Scott Handcock

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up. — Dennis Weaver

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird. — Nikki Sixx

An associate of mine named William Congreve once wrote a very sad play that begins with the line 'Music has charms to sooth a savage beast,' a sentence which here means that if you are nervous or upset, you might listen to some music to calm you down or cheer you up. For instance, as I crouch here behind the alter of the Cathedral of the Alleged Virgin, a friend of mine is playing a sonata on the pipe organ, to calm me down and so that the sounds of my typewriter will not be heard by the worshipers sitting in the pews. The mournful melody of the sonata reminds me of a tune my father used to sing when he did the dishes, and as I listen to it I can temporarily forget six or seven of my troubles. — Lemony Snicket

The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s. — Sara Sheridan

being an asshole doesn't make you seem like a rock star--it just makes you seem like an asshole. — Jesse Cannon

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children. — Bill Gates

I'm not comfortable around cameras. — Suzanne Collins