East Yorkshire Quotes & Sayings

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized. — Eve Babitz

It is not how long it takes one to succeed in life that matters but how well. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. — Max Lucado

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. — Sigmund Freud

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it. — Jacqueline Woodson

People today will have you believing life is a blank slate upon which you can write anything at all
this is poetic, even romantic. Unfortunately, it's also a lie, because life exists in, is bound by, shaped by, controlled by, and functions within a construct. Attempt to function outside that construct, or bend it to our will, or remove it completely, and you throw all of society into chaos. We're seeing that now.
Like it or not, birds don't fly upside down ... and neither can we. — Northern Adams

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity. — George Thorogood

What can I do to help thee?" he asked.
"Believe there is a tomorrow. — James Clavell

But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute. — Hermann Hesse

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long. — Anna Maxwell Martin

I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines. — Anna Maxwell Martin

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar
I say, you say, he and she, it, on the other hand, does not say
paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on. — Margaret Atwood

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish. — Sebastian Coe

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. — David Hockney