Furlongs Norwood Quotes & Sayings

Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. They don't feel the need to own it. They certainly don't feel the need to pay for it. I'd have to save up for weeks to buy an album when I was a kid, and that made it even more great for me when I finally got that thing in my hand. — Paul Weller

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. — J. C. Watts

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight. — William Hazlitt

On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light. — Anne Rivers Siddons

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison. — D.H. Lawrence

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly. — Patrick Ness

Whoever came up with the term "Funny Bone" must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all ... — Gary Hopkins

No problem, I'll get a penguin to show us — P.C. Cast

our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called real men from displaying high emotion, with the exception of anger. John Wayne doesn't cry. By contrast, Achilles, the epitome of manliness in Homer's Iliad, weeps openly and at length over the loss of his friend Patroclus. — Thomas Van Nortwick

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that. — Judith Jamison

Part of making a good decision is just making a decision. You can't always sit and weigh the pros and cons. There just isn't time for that. Making a good decision means sticking with your choice and dealing with what comes with it. Being able to deal with the consequences - that's making a good decision. — J.X. Burros

And the hair on his arms stood erect and some primal siren sounded in his brain, but mistaking terror for adrenaline, he walked down into the darkness because he'd never felt more alive. — Blake Crouch

Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism. — Theodore Roosevelt

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. — Kurt Vonnegut