Girton Quotes & Sayings

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home
Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else? — Ian McEwan

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind — George Carlin

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love
the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen. — Joyce Carol Oates

Stand tall, talk small, play ball — Derrick Adkins

Now I've done it. Only one line to say I love you. And I do. Be safe. XO Rita — Suzanne Hayes

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. — John Owen

This is a love letter to a nightmare. — Leonora Carrington

That look will get you diamonds, baby," he said, "but not my cock pierced. — Olivia Cunning

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest. — Paul Arden

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. — Michelle Obama

I thought I was raptured up into the air today; turns out, it was just my gas oven exploding. — Emo Philips

Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy. — Jake Shimabukuro

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together. — Alain De Botton

I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be. — Maelle Gavet

She lit up as she descended the stairs to the hall, knowing that she would not have dared had her father been at home. He had precise ideas about where a woman should be seen smoking: not in the street, or any public place, not on entering a room, not standing up, and only when offered, never from her own supply - notions as self evident to him as natural justice. Three years among the sophisticates of Girton had not provided her with courage to confront him. — Ian McEwan