Conals Menu Quotes & Sayings

She once said her songs were "mostly about myths, spirits, that kind of thing. Not fairies, stronger than that." Not fairies. Stronger than that: there's a fine phrase to bear in mind. Her lyrics are about the things that drive, or repulse, or empower the human spirit. Not escapism, in fact, but its exact opposite. — Graeme Thomson

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support. — Elizabeth Price

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts — Leonard Cohen

When you love someone, you often surprise yourself with the kind of forbearance you can show in the face of total exasperation. — Amit Pandey

When you grow tired of being what you're not, go and have fun and celebrate life ...
In time, you'll discover that it will give you more than pleasure, it will give you meaning. — Paulo Coelho

Your husband appears to possess an uncanny gift for seducing his enemies. — Dorothy Dunnett

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, like God, see only our actions. — Marty Rubin

I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools. — Paul Simonon

He's more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on his mind is somehow different from what goes on everyone else's. Even those close to us. And how you can't think about that for too long, because that thought- the truth of your own isolation- is too much to bear. — Julie Buxbaum

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot. — James Rollins

I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed. — Jeff Lindsay