Diarmuid Connolly Quotes & Sayings

Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves. — G.K. Chesterton

What I'm not confident in is my ability to resist what Cash isn't even trying to hide.
He's interested in me. And not just as an employee. Maybe very little as an employee, in fact. Every time my eyes meet his, I feel like he's undressing me. And, God help me, I love it. Those sexy, velvety eyes are like a touch. I can almost feel them, like hands on my body and lips on my mouth.
Admittedly, I have a thing for bad boys, but Cash is ... I don't know. He's different. I daresay he's even more dangerous than my usual disastrous finds. — M. Leighton

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. — Peter S. Beagle

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. — David Eagleman

What ails us? What is the name
Of our disease? Because we cannot utter it,
It is something we cannot conjure or cure.
It is the memory before this Paradise
That is the darkness of our soul. — Marne L. Kilates

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune. — Napoleon Hill

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them. — Jim Henson

Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something. — Mikey Way

But they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind. — Bill Vaughan

In the early eighteenth century, India owned 25% of the world's wealth. — Firas Alkhateeb

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.' — Lori Wilde