Cuckooland Quotes & Sayings

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored. — Martin Jacques

convince you there's life after the military, though," Tyler added. Joe towered behind his wife's chair, massaging — Kate Aster

I want to be the be-all and end-all when it comes to my daughter. I want to be the man that every other man has to look up to. I will treat her like a princess because if I don't, she might go out and latch on to the first man who does. So yeah, I open car doors and I take her on dates and I buy her flowers for no reason. Because I want her to know she's worthy of all of those things. And I fix hair. — Tammy Falkner

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so. — Roald Dahl

The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted. — William Trevor

The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide. — Charlie Cook

You have incredible potential. At your birth, you were loaded with everything you need to make an impact on the world. — Pedro Okoro

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living. — Derek Fisher

Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. — Francis Thompson