Fatlands Quotes & Sayings

It is the supreme proof of a man being prosaic that he always insists on poetry being poetical. — G.K. Chesterton

Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire, — Kate Atkinson

Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way. — Suzanne Collins

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo — John Hartford

And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting ... The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not fame. — W.E.B. Du Bois

But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! for then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again! — Lewis Carroll

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. — Wilfred Owen

My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's. — Hillary Clinton

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy. — Donna R. Gabaccia