Crofts Quotes & Sayings

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. — Suzy Kassem

There must be a sense of urgency before anything can ever happen. — Andrew Crofts

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil. — Andrew Crofts

He wondered if she walked at night and came there ever - came with that look on her face, unrested and looking, going up the path and through the barn open all around and stopping in the shadow by the store boarded up, coming on unrested with that look on her face like he had seen through the crack going down. — Flannery O'Connor

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. — George Miller

Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of interest. — Andrew Crofts

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either. — Ivan Turgenev

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual. — Michael Pollan

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error. — Edouard Boubat

Attraction is often mistaken to be love.
If you're in a relationship doesn't necessarily mean you're in love. And what do you do when that ephemeral attraction is long gone?
What people call break-ups are nothing more but the realization that you didn't love them at the first place ...
Shouldn't you have been more careful before making those empty promises? — Sanhita Baruah

It was the stuff of legends, the Highland Rising of 1745 in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Sebastian had heard the stories, too, from his grandmother, Hendon's mother, who had been a Grant from Glenmoriston. Stories of unarmed clansmen dragged out of crofts and slaughtered before their screaming children. Of women and children burned alive, or turned out of their villages to die in the snow. What was done to the Highlanders after Culloden would forever be a dark stain on the English soul. Everything from the pipes to the plaids to the Gaelic language itself had been forbidden, obliterating an entire culture. — C.S. Harris

Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on. — Andrew Crofts

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Understand That Bad Reviews Are a Sign That You're Relevant The only way you could never get any negative reviews would be if you were so incredibly irrelevant that no one thought you were worth talking or thinking about. — Sean Platt

Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ... — Andrew Crofts

It is the garden dseigner's job to hide the vulgar and the common as far as the eye can see and include only the excellent and splendid. — Andrew Crofts

Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand. — Kevin Gates

True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key. — Johnathan Jena

There exist concretely alarm clocks, signboards, tax forms, policemen, so many guard rails against anguish. But as soon as the enterprise is held at a distance from me, as soon as I am referred to myself because I must await myself in the future, then I discover myself suddenly as the one who gives its meaning to the alarm clock, the one who by a signboard forbids himself to walk on a flower bed or on the lawn, the one from whom the boss's order borrows its urgency, the one who decides the interest of the book which he is writing, the one who finally makes the values exist in order to determine his action by their demands. I emerge alone and in anguish confronting the unique and original project which constitutes my being; all the barriers, all the guard rails collapse, nihilated by the consciousness of my freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Humans are attracted to each other's rough edges. — Mark Manson

Everything is mended by the soil. — Andrew Crofts

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. — Doris Lessing

'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening. — Ann Cleeves

Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother ... — J.K. Rowling

Garden design is all about concealment and surprise. — Andrew Crofts

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships. — Andrew Crofts