Delectation Splendide Quotes & Sayings

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. — C. Z. Guest

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby' ... it scared the crap out of me. — Pierce Brosnan

Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man. — Andy Weir

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! — Ashwin Sanghi

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets. — Shana Alexander

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked. — Luis Suarez

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge. — Drew Carey

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things. — Pearl Cleage

I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family. — Gustavo Dudamel

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. — Mason Cooley

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood. — Hanif Kureishi

The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven. — Anthony Of Padua

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another. — Mark Levin

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me. — Greg Fitzsimmons