Cracroft Quotes & Sayings

Francis Crozier now understood that the most desirable and erotic thing a woman could wear were the many modest layers such as Sophia Cracroft wore to dinner in the governor's house, enough silken fabric to conceal the lines of her body, allowing a man to concentrate on the exciting loveliness of her wit — Dan Simmons

Learn to know yourself ... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings. — Nelson Mandela

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not. — Lord Chesterfield

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. — Larry Hagman

Every era casts illness in its own image. Society, like the ultimate psychosomatic patient, matches its medical afflictions to its psychological crises; when a disease touches such a visceral chord, it is often because that chord is already resonating. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. — Elizabeth McCracken

I hope you die ...
P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse. — Michael Ian Black

The way to fight shame and to honor who we are is by sharing our experience with someone who has earned the right to hear it. — Brene Brown

Oh Lola's Boobs,' he says into my chest, 'I wish we knew each other better.'
I crack up laughing.
'What's that you say?' he jokes, putting his ear to my right breast. 'You wish you could come out to play more often but Lola doesn't let you? Well, that's a shame. — Bianca Giovanni

While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. — Sam Harris