Fossoway Perthshire Quotes & Sayings

Granny says they're soft in the head, but Elsa just thinks they're nice. And they always have dreams and hugs - dreams are a kind of biscuit; hugs are just normal hugs. — Fredrik Backman

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along ... — Randall Jarrell

Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?"
"Oh, son. How could you ask a man who used to play the blues a question like that?"
"How long does it take to go away?"
"A broken heart?"
"Yeah."
"There's no precise formula, Sammy."
"Just give me an estimate."
"A good rule of thumb is at least half the time that you were in love. Or twice the time. It all just depends. — Zack Love

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. — Errol Morris

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. — Herman Melville

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. — Minnie Driver

It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live ...
a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had the opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children? How few have ever had anything more of choice in government than in climate? — David McCullough

I shook with helplessness and rage, but also with fear. This was what fighting back earned you. More abuse. More death. Half a dozen Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight. To fight back was to die quickly and to take others with you.
This was why prisoners went meekly to their deaths. I had been so resolved to fight back, but I knew then that I wouldn't. To suffer quietly hurt only you. To suffer loudly, violently, angrily
to fight back
was to bring hurt and pain and death to others. — Alan Gratz

Above the sky, everything is beautiful, but alone. (Au-dessus du ciel, - Tout est beau, mais seul) — Charles De Leusse

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. — Jonathan Swift

One part of my consciousness serves only one realm. — Toba Beta

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive. — Christopher Lee

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night. — Donna Rice