Cramond Inn Quotes & Sayings

For a person who strives for excellence, one's own satisfaction is often more valuable than others' appreciation. — Amey Hegde

At whatever point one opens Gift from the Sea, to any chapter or page, the author's words offer a chance to breathe and to live more slowly. The book makes it possible to quiet down and rest in the present, no matter what the circumstances may be. Just to read it - a little of it or in its entirety - is to exist for a while in a different and more peaceful tempo. Even the sway and flow of language and cadence seem to me to make reference to the easy, inevitable movements of the sea. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here. — Len Wein

if ti ain't fun, don't do it — JCT

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them. — Crystal Bowersox

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives. — John M. McHugh

... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications. — Ernesto Spinelli

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food. — M. Ward

People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces. — David Rees

Are you familiar with Saint Cuthman?" Alfred asked me cheerfully.
"No, lord."
"He was a hermit," Alfred said. We were riding north, keeping on the high ground with the swamp to our left. "His mother was crippled and so he made her a wheelbarrow."
"A wheelbarrow? What could a cripple do with a wheelbarrow?"
"No, no, no! He pushed her about in it! So she could be with him as he preached. He pushed her everywhere."
"She must have liked that."
"There's no written life of him that I know of,' Alfred said, 'but we must surely compose one. He could be a saint for mothers?"
"Or for wheelbarrows, lord. — Bernard Cornwell

Being In love with Vampires is never out of fashion (The Angel Vampire: A New Race is Born) — Vianka Van Bokkem

I imagine 'Daily Grace' as, like, your awkward older sister who tries to give you advice. — Grace Helbig

There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.
This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above. — Alice Thomas Ellis

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. — Rene Descartes

The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly by a great flood. It was a very trying day, choked in raw fog to begin with, and now drowned in cold rain. The flickering, blurred flames of gas-lamps seemed to be dissolving in a watery atmosphere. And the lofty pretensions of a mankind oppressed by the miserable indignities of the weather appeared as a colossal and hopeless vanity deserving of scorn, wonder, and compassion. — Joseph Conrad