Combermere Barracks Quotes & Sayings

Thank heavens we have an earth, or where would we sit? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else
yet we see it all the time. No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Naturally we become timid about making our insights known, in such inhospitable conditions. Being burned as a witch is not safely enough off the agenda. — Lynne Truss

We're off to see the Wizard — Danielle Paige

Call me a hopeless sadistic romantic I'm happy tonight. — Sai Marie Johnson

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be. — Ralph Marston

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book. — Seth Godin

I know, who doesn't want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero. — Justin Hartley

Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage. — C.S. Lewis

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus. — Stewart O'Nan

Only those that wandered in the darkness truly revel in the light — Shekhar Kapur

The time there was only the one warm-up room for everyone, a room so astonishingly hot and airless and noisy, so crowded with extraordinarily talented-seeming musicians, that everything had begun to spin like a merry-go-round, and a French cellist had reached out a languid hand to save Clementine's cello as it slipped from her grasp. (She was a champion fainter.) The — Liane Moriarty

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast. — Richard Branson

If seeds were afraid of change, there would be no flowers or trees. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. — Robert Webb