Cumberworth Negro Quotes & Sayings

In this crooked blind alley, as the chill descends,
they feed fires
with logs of song and poetry.
Hazard not a thought:
These are strange times, my dear.

The man who knocks at your door in the noon of the night
has come to kill the light.
Let's hide light in the larder. — Ahmad Shamlu

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. — C.S. Lewis

I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best. — Manju Warrier

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? — Diane Setterfield

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names. — Chelsea Cain

Its hard to make the decisions to find it in your heart to love someone when your heart is still in love with someone else. But it's even harder to make when you know that it has already been hurt by that someone its still in love with. — Jerome D. Williams

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market. — Rebecca West

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. — Ring Lardner

He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; yet he ignored all the compassion of Christianity, denied its mercy, flagrantly disobeyed its ethic of love, and openly flouted the gentle laws of Jesus. — Ken Follett

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves. — Lord Robertson

In every case except abortion, society bestows upon individuals this trust, even if those individuals have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to make good decisions. The presumption undergirding abortion decision making is that women who have had sex and are accidentally or unintentionally pregnant can't be trusted to comprehend the consequential weight of their actions. The law requires them, like bad little girls, to "prove" to authorities that they have thought carefully about what they are about to do. — Dr. Willie Parker

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. — Pierre Omidyar