Dianne Durham Quotes & Sayings

The beatings at Repton were more fierce and more frequent than anything I had yet experienced. And do not think for one moment that the future Archbishop of Canterbury objected to these squalid exercises. He rolled up his sleeves and joined in with gusto. His were the bad ones, the really terrifying occasions. Some of the beatings administered by this man of God, this future Head of the Church of England, were very brutal. To my certain knowledge he once had to produce a basin of water, a sponge and a towel so that the victim could wash the blood away afterwards. No joke, that. Shades of the Spanish Inquisition. — Roald Dahl

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. — Lisa Kudrow

There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash. — Candice Olson

The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet. — David Letterman

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM. — Susan Hill

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. — Egon Schiele

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that. — Jordan Knight