Gitmidelaw Quotes & Sayings

Cheese! I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me. — Alan Bradley

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic. — Christopher Moore

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich. — Danny DeVito

Background vocals during her song "I Hope You Dance" ... 'Time is a wheel in constant motion always, rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone.' — Lee Ann Womack

The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head. The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded, seemed part of a nightmare. — Malcolm Lowry

He lost his sight and found a vision. He proved dramatically that it's not what happens to us that determines out lives - it's what we make of what happens. — Ken Robinson

Sometimes this genius goes dark and drowns in the bitter wells of his heart. — Clemens Brentano

My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for there to be a [central authority] controlling the schools. They are in more than 100 countries, and there must be many different companies that have opened and run them. — Fethullah Gulen

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it. — Mekael Shane