Ditton Lodge Quotes & Sayings

Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others. — Napoleon Hill

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong? — Cassandra Clare

Cindy had told her to take as much as she wanted from the storage space in the attic because whatever she didn't take was going to charity, so Neni had cheerfully obliged, taking an old Louis Vuitton carry-on suitcase with a broken zipper, jam-packing it like roasted peanuts in a liquor bottle, and tying it shut with one of her blouses. — Imbolo Mbue

Stroke the fire, prod the tiger. Hate me. Hate me like you did that night. Let's start at the beginning, and end it right here, annihilate everything.
Annihilate me. — Aleksandr Voinov

When it came time to die, we knew and went to deep yards where we lay down and our bones turned to brass. We were picked over. We were used to fix broken clocks, music boxes; our pelvises were fitted onto pinions, our spines soldered into cast works. Our ribs were fitted as gear teeth and tapped and clicked like tusks. This is how, finally, we were joined. — Paul Harding

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak

I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book. — Claire Cameron

At eighteen Katharine had decided there was dignity in loneliness. In time the ideas had become synonymous in her mind, believing in the distance created between people, one could never be foolish.
"You can always come back," Siobhan said, "if the dark starts to frighten you."
But Katharine knew that wasn't true. — Deborah Valentine

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done — Chad Michael Murray

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do. — Geoff Johns

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. — Lisa Delpit

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences. — David Oyelowo

Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well. — Kandyse McClure