Cricquetshirts Quotes & Sayings

God uses language to create and command us. — Eugene H. Peterson

Floote, what is going on? Do they think I
am contagious? Should I assure them I was
born with a nose this size? — Gail Carriger

It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living. — Debasish Mridha

The rather blurred background to the face that formed over the vid plate seemed faintly familiar - ah yes, the Security Ops room at Ryoval Biologicals. Baron Ryoval had arrived personally on that scene as promised. It took only one glance at the dusky, contorted expression on Ryoval's youthful face to fill in the rest of the scenario. Miles folded his hands and smiled innocently. "Good morning, Baron. What can I do for you?" "Die, you little mutant!" Ryoval spat. "You! There isn't going to be a bunker deep enough for you to burrow in. I'll put a price on your head that will have every bounty hunter in the galaxy all over you like a second skin - you'll not eat or sleep - I'll have you - " Yes, — Lois McMaster Bujold

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well. — William S. Burroughs

His favorite saying was, 'Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum."
"'Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe'?" Boyd said, sounding a little incredulous. Isabella hadn't, apparently, been the only one who understood her defiance.
She nodded. "Usually he only said it when my brother or I were being particularly horrible. — Patricia Briggs

Do not forget the joy of existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells, — Tom Holt

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. — Bill Russell

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants. — Joseph Boyden

In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor. — Robert Breault

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it ... — Barack Obama

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume. — Carine Roitfeld

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's. — Heather Mills

You are insistent, calling again. You want me to tell you the story of Scheherazade, who rocks the sad king on her knees as she sings him tales from wonderland. Yet you know that I am not Scheherazade, and that one of the world's greatest wonders is that I am unable to enter my country or pass through the region around it. — Liana Badr