Costain Plc Quotes & Sayings

If you can't get out of something, get into it. — Kris Kristofferson

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record. — Gilbert Ryle

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'. — Fred Armisen

They then said they would give me pork and lasses; and then inquired what execution some cannon had done, just before fired from the island, if they had not killed and wounded some of our men; and if we did not want help as our surgeons were a pack of ignormauses. I told them in reply, that they had done no other execution with their guns than wunding a dog,(which was the case,) and as they and their surgeons were of the same species of animals, I supposed the poor wunded dog would account it a particular favor to have some of his own kind ot assist him. — Joseph Plumb Martin

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people. — Travis Morrison

And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Keep moving forward! You don't need permission from anyone in order to move on your own father's land! Go ahead and take the lead! — Israelmore Ayivor

Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control. — Gordon Brown

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive. — Dolly Parton

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples. — Jalal Talabani

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason. — C.S. Lewis