Downright Eiderdown Quotes & Sayings

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
- The Evil Eye — Mary Shelley

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.' — Anna Gunn

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either". — Charles Spurgeon

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort. — Lauren Kate

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. — Maya Angelou

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart — Frank Sinatra

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes
pg 95 — Milan Kundera

Ah-ha! I knew it! Penis problems"
"Well, it seems that the cause of some of my problems happens to have a penis. Well, two actually,"
"Oh sweet Mary! You're dating a guy with two dicks?"
"Ginger, no! It's about two different guys."
"Oh," she says, obviously disappointed. "Damn. That woulda been kinda cool. — M. Leighton

Nothing that she wore upon her most pure and virginal body became soiled or worn; for she neither perspired, nor was she subject to the punishments, which are laid upon the sin-impregnated bodies of the children of Adam. She — Mary Of Agreda

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by. — Olly Murs