Durnford Bermuda Quotes & Sayings

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do. — Michael Morpurgo

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like. — Jim Norton

But a situation that takes place at the opening of a novel always refers you to something else that has happened or is about to happen, and it is this something else that makes it risky to identify with me, risky for you the reader and for him the author; and the more gray and ordinary and undistinguished and commonplace the beginning of this novel is, the more you and the author feel a hint of danger looming over that fraction of "I" that you have heedlessly invested in the "I" of a character whose inner history you know nothing about, as you know nothing about the contents of that — Italo Calvino

I don't stand back and judge - I do. — John Lennon

I'm definitely different and I know that. — Danica Patrick

There is no more authoritative declaration than what we find in the word of God, no firmer ground to stand on, no "more final" argument that can be spoken after Scripture has spoken. — Kevin DeYoung

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom. — Byron Katie

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged. — Gertrude Stein

The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability. — Allan Savory

An unexpected side effect of having enhanced memory; smart mice are sometimes paralyzed by fear. — Anonymous

I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning. — Fuzzy Zoeller

The gist of Laszlo's pitch for the equity department was this question: When you turn on your television at six-thirty and Dan Rather tells you that today the market went up twenty-four points, what market do you think he means? "What!" Laszlo would say. "You think he's talking about Grade A industrial bonds? Ha! He's talking about the stock market." In other words, if you joined the equity department, your mother would know what you did for a living. — Michael Lewis