Derrington Evans Quotes & Sayings

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. — J.G. Ballard

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. — A.A. Milne

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him. — Yaqub Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence. — James Purdy

And, oh, I am riding such a high, full wave of love that I have to fall. Of course I have to. Of course, because life and love is joy and pain, fullness and emptiness, highs and lows, tide in, tide out. I will have to fall hard from that high wave, smack right down on my sorry face, but we are not at that part of the story yet. — Deb Caletti

Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away. — Stephenie Meyer

He should have just checked it. I don't understand why some people insist on hauling those giant bags around everywhere they go - not when you can check one bag free on international flights. Check it at the gate if you don't trust the belt system. — Sabra Hunter

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. — Francis Alexander Durivage

Everyone chases after happiness,
not noticing that happiness is right at their heels — Bertolt Brecht

He smiled. And as I looked at the naked beauty of the expression, I fell in love with him.
It was that simple, that complicated. — Charlotte McConaghy

He could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour. — F Scott Fitzgerald

But kept eyeing Percy as though they were imagining him in a doggie bag. — Rick Riordan

I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal, a good deal, a proper deal, but a really good deal. — Donald Trump

I can't, guys," I said. "Tonight I'm making a cherry pie from scratch. — Holly Bourne

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part. — Casey Stengel