Flonkers Quotes & Sayings

Hillingham first saw the women by the dwile flonkers. He had spent the day walking around Dover's Hill, the shallow amphitheatre where the Cotswold Olimpick Games took place and had taken, he thought, some good photographs so far. The place was heaving and he had captured some of that, he hoped; the shifting bustle as people flocked from event to event and laughed and shouted and ate and drank. The sound of cymbals and mandolins and violins and guitars filled the air about the crowd, leaping around the brightly costumed figures and the smells of roasting meat and open fires.
("The Cotswold Olimpicks") — Reggie Oliver

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man! — Jay Alan Sekulow

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me! — Robert Browning

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. — Frederick William Robertson

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities. — Thomas Sowell

The gamble is everything, and losing means death. The odds are more than a million to one against success. — Hope Jahren

Continue to breathe, peaceful and easy. Light in, light out, love in, love
out. Rest in your feelings of well-being. — Marcey Shapiro

Why are you smiling?" "Because I can. — Amelia LeFay

In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did. — Joe Carnahan

The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn't notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and night.
I had no patience for showers or balanced meals. I did a lot of lying on floors - childish certainly, but when one can lie on floors without anyone seeing one, trust me, one will lie on a floor. I discovered, too, the fleeting yet discernible joy of biting into a Whitman's chocolate and throwing the remaining half behind the sofa in the library. I could read, read, read until my eyes burned and the words floating like noodles in soup. — Marisha Pessl

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Technically, you passed out under me, Cole smiles at his own joke. — Kristin R. Campbell