Fitzroy Quotes & Sayings

Achievement was all very well, but it was the process, not — Sonia Sotomayor

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. — Thomas Carlyle

It is the house of my dreams. My Tuscan dream! [Every Italophile's dream] — Kate Fitzroy

You are what you settle for. — Janis Joplin

Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop — Lewis Carroll

It comes down to this: What kind of father are you? What kind of husband are you? What kind of coach or teammate are you? What kind of son are you? What kind of friend are you? Success comes in terms of relationships. — Joe Ehrmann

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment. — Boethius

To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths. — Helen Garner

Culture is roughly everything we do and monkeys don't. — FitzRoy Richard Somerset

If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation. — FitzRoy James Henry Somerset

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. — Robert Anton Wilson

After a long chilly night's drive, straining our eyes in the darkness for unseen obstacles and pitfalls, we found that there was a lot to be said for a dram of whisky stirred into our porridge. It made a sustaining and stimulating mixture which I can warmly recommend as a breakfast dish to all engaged on similar enterprises. — Fitzroy MacLean

I am always searching for more light and space. — Santiago Calatrava

I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake. — Anna Sheehan

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house ... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world ... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her ... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world ... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak. — Charles M. Schulz

Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh. — Ian Fleming