Dafferns Quotes & Sayings

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it. — Apollonius Of Tyana

The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too. — Dorothy Dunnett

She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor. — Jodi Rell

Soon after faced a similar debacle building its 787 Dreamliner, which came into service in 2011. Both jet makers have used those pitfalls to fine-tune their current ramp-ups. — Anonymous

He pulled the door open and saw a Checker cab sitting out there, an ambassador from the land of sanity. — Stephen King

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids ... her uterus fell out! — Andrew Dice Clay

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. — Michael Shaara

Livvy held up a hand. In Emma's defense, Cameron's annoying, but he's hot. — Cassandra Clare

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley. — W. Somerset Maugham

Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*. — Stephen King

There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. — Robert James Waller

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy. — David Lynch

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process. — Aimee Mann

Twitter for me is a form of entertainment for the followers and it's also a source of information. I try to tweet things that I think might make people smile, or to share information that I want to get across, like an event like this that can inspire other people to get involved. I try to mix it up. I think that is a reflection of me - a family man, an actor, and a philanthropist. — Peter Facinelli