Doddington Farm Quotes & Sayings

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder? — Lewis Carroll

Ty: Just words I like. If I say them to myself, it makes my mind - quieter. Does it bother you?
Kit: No. I was just curious what words you liked.
Ty: It's not the meaning, just the sound. Glass, twin, apple, whisper, stars, crystal, shadow, lilt.
Kit: Whisper would be one of mine, too. Cloud, secret, highway, hurricane, mirror, castle, thorns.
Ty: Blackthorns. — Cassandra Clare

This Mr Thomson seems a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. It would please me none the worse, if (with all his merits) he were soused in the North Sea; for the man, Mr Balfour, is a sore embarrassment. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You've gotta respect everyone's beliefs." No, you don't. That's what gets us in trouble. Look, you have to acknowledge everyone's beliefs, and then you have to reserve the right to go: "That is fucking stupid. Are you kidding me?" I acknowledge that you believe that, that's great, but I'm not going to respect it. I have an uncle that believes he saw Sasquatch. We do not believe him, nor do we respect him! — Patton Oswalt

Sometimes, you just have to strike out in the vague direction of your dream, even if you don't know exactly where the journey's going to lead you. The very act of making the trip can reveal all the pieces that are missing. — Brian Cormack Carr

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. — Sean O'Casey

So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them. — Cory Doctorow

Not deep the poet sees, but wide. — Matthew Arnold

"If we are truly the Lord's, we all walk with a limp" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

*Note: 'Jacobs Ladder'. — R. Alan Woods

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott

History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly. — Daniel Walker Howe

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay — Theodor Herzl

I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad. — Laura Wasser

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. — Richard Feynman