Escarlate Quotes & Sayings

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. — Stephen Gardiner

My mother loved children
she would have given anything if I had been one. — Groucho Marx

He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality ... — Alice Waters

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money. — Martin Schulz

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away. — David Foster Wallace

God owns heaven but He craves the earth. — Anne Sexton

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what. — Angela Knight

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball. — Andy Goldsworthy

Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly being dragged off certain people, just think to what good causes they could be put - wouldn't that be a lovely thought'? — Terry Pratchett

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know. — Robert Breault