Donnybrook Quotes & Sayings

That was real. That was something. Tell me you felt something, that you felt what I felt. — Karina Halle

But what club wouldn't welcome the chance to strengthen their side, what club would turn down the resources Chelsea have? — Frank Lampard

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph. — Bjorn Lomborg

Put yourself in the hands of the universe-then you will have no need for control. — Deepak Chopra

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. — Elizabeth Gould Davis

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. — Edward Dahlberg

The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely wanted the gesture of her presence. They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a "leading blogger" about race. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

All the things you needed to know in life - you didn't learn them until you'd already made your decisions. — Philipp Meyer

They won the war but lost the peace, — Jonathan Maberry

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas. — Siobhan Davies

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. — Criss Jami

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful ... — Barbara De Angelis

And all Jess knew about Gwen was that she threatened Brendon Shaw's cranky sister with acid during the wedding. Not that Jess blamed her or anything, because Marissa Shaw could be a real bitch, but Lock deserved a lovely sow who loved him, pampered him, and understood his obsession with honey. — Shelly Laurenston

That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic. — Don DeLillo

Heavenly weather really. If life was always like that. Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Duck for six wickets. Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg. Donnybrook fair more in their line. And the skulls we were acracking when M'Carthy took the floor. Heatwave. Won't last. Always passing, the stream of life, which in the stream of life we trace is dearer than them all. — James Joyce

I just hadn't wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying. — Robyn Schneider