Flodden Wall Quotes & Sayings

The house, the stars, the desert
what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon

I don't pay attention to the ratings. — Martha Plimpton

The most famous case was the so-called Bradley effect: in 1982, California voters told exit pollsters they had elected a black governor, Tom Bradley, by a significant margin, but in the privacy of the ballot box they had actually given his white opponent a narrow victory. — Anonymous

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement. — Andre Agassi

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today. — Greg Forster

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat. — Muhammad Ali

I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose. — John Clare

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. — Assata Shakur

Henry glares at him. "I will say this for you. You stick by your man." "I have never had anything from the cardinal other than kindness. Why would I not? — Hilary Mantel

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer? — Fred D'Aguiar

This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins. — Kathy Bryson

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line. — Ambrose Bierce

Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence? — Brian D. McLaren

When does something man-made cease being synthetic, and become real? — Penny Reid