Dornford Quotes & Sayings

Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel ... which actress? Damn, she couldn't think of an
actress to save her life! She was on her own. — Jill Shalvis

How many of us feel this strange mix of busyness and lifelessness? — Kevin DeYoung

We want more people owning things in this country. (Applause.) Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have
control over your own life. — George W. Bush

No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet. — Malak El Halabi

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was. — Cal Ripken Jr.

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. — Alan Bennett

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. — Alice Walker

Books are a narcotic. — Franz Kafka

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul. — Dornford Yates

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard

There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise. — Kiki Hamilton

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. — Iris Murdoch

the progress of which mankind is so proud, may well be known to the gods by another name. — Dornford Yates

I was dreaming about you."

"Was it a good dream?"

"Not really. I was chasing you and you wouldn't stop running from me."

~Brian/Myrna — Olivia Cunning

This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun. — Harold Eugene Edgerton

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox. — Tom Selleck

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship. — Jeff Buckley