Connollys Quotes & Sayings

Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking-
glass, that night when he got back to his room. He gazed at
himself long and curiously. Who are you? What are you? Where do
you belong? You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly.
You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and
vulgar, and unbeautiful. You belong with the oxen and the drudges,
in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches. There are the
stale vegetables now. Those potatoes are rotting. Smell them,
damn you, smell them. And yet you dare to open the books, to
listen to beautiful music, to learn to love beautiful paintings, to
speak good English, to think thoughts that none of your own kind
thinks, to tear yourself away from the oxen and the Lizzie
Connollys and to love a pale spirit of a woman who is a million
miles beyond you and who lives in the stars! Who are you? and what
are you? damn you! And are you going to make good? — Jack London

If you want to sail your pretty little rowboat down the Nile and take in the scenery, then I'm not going to be the one to stop you. — L. H. Cosway

Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. — Jordan Ellenberg

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity
the incredibly outgoing energy
of righteous rage. — June Jordan

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan. — Christopher Lee

We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle. — Siegfried Sassoon

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about. — Tucker Max

Might contain images or ideas that could be troubling, and also suggests that if you are mature (whatever that happens to mean) — Neil Gaiman

Lette me stande to the maine chance. — John Lyly

What Lucie was hearing surpassed all understanding. A mass derangement, with the aid of bogus medical records and money under the table. — Franck Thilliez

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. — Lucille Roybal-Allard

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok. — Lars Ulrich

Have high hopes for the future; take action and it will be a reality. — Debasish Mridha

Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it. — Sherwin B. Nuland