Ettington House Quotes & Sayings

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls ... For me they will always be glorious birds. — Colin Higgins

Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained. — Robert Drew

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder. — Thomas Jefferson

Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data. — Carl Sagan

He was seated alone on a lounge chair in the sitting room, his face veiled with a copy of his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, half reading and half listening to Mother. — Chigozie Obioma

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. — Alicia Keys

Combray, we used often to invite him to our house. — Marcel Proust

Our trees
were nuns at the edge of our plans, praying for us — Sue Goyette

Is that how it is now, we're back to just friends?" Violet asked, rasing her eyebrows at him challengingly. "I'll remember to keep that in mind next time we're 'doing homework'. — Kimberly Derting

I read what I'd written and thought once again: from what violent chasms is my most intimate intimacy nourished, why does it deny itself so much and flee to the domain of ideas? I feel within me a subterranean violence, a violence that only comes to the surface during the act of writing. — Clarice Lispector

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror. — Irvine Welsh

The depth of your life is proportional to the depth and purity of your love and thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back. — Jim Gilmore

What you think about yourself is your own business. — Ben Tolosa

It's fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! Lame-o-rama! Beyond lame. Highlander II lame. — Ernest Cline