Englandy Quotes & Sayings

Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left. — Dick Van Dyke

Nationwide Manhunt After Explosives — Anonymous

Material wealth can be bad for your health.
Because when you're in the soil it'll make your blood boil,
that you couldn't keep it all for your self. — Benny Bellamacina

Stellar Plains, New Jersey, was a town that got mentioned whenever there was an article called "The Fifty Most Livable Suburbs in America." Unlike most suburbs, this one was considered progressive. Though the turnpike that ran through it was punctuated by carpet-remnant outlets and tire wholesalers, and even an unsettling, windowless store no one had ever been to, advertising DVDS AND CHINESE SPECIALTY ITEMS, Main Street was quaint and New Englandy, with a cosmopolitan slant. There was an excellent bookstore, Chapter and Verse, at a moment when bookstores around the country were making way for cell-phone stores. — Meg Wolitzer

We have all heard the forlorn refrain "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!" This phrase has come to stand for the rueful reflection of an idiot, a sign of stupidity, but in fact we should appreciate it as a pillar of wisdom. Any being, any agent, who can truly say, "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!" is standing on the threshold of brilliance. We — Daniel C. Dennett

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. — Siri Hustvedt

WITCH KILLER - THE HUMAN IS STILL INSIDE HIM — Sarah J. Maas

Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail. — Charles Wheelan

I couldn't figure out how you could go from feeling so close to a person one minute to not being sure if you even knew them the next. — Katie Cotugno