Gallic Rooster Quotes & Sayings

When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that's an evasion. It's actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront. — Tom Shippey

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore. — Nicola Sturgeon

Trouble shared is trouble halved. — Lee Iacocca

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you. — Diana Wynne Jones

How drunk do you need to be for your best friend to rail you? — Santino Hassell

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself. — Jonathan Franzen

Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender. — Elizabeth Bear

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say. — David Nicholls

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed. — Ben Stein

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart. — Jane Austen

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds? — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven. — Olivia Holt