Glasgow Words Quotes & Sayings

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them. — Ellen Glasgow

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! — Frederic Chopin

Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data. — Carl Sagan

The world does not end tonight
And the fruit that we will pick tomorrow
Await us, weighing the unstripped bough. — Charles Tomlinson

For the red carpet, I think dress first and the makeup to follow. — Zac Posen

defiant, and her words have rough, girlish hope. The — Kathleen Glasgow

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical. — Chogyam Trungpa

I have to rub my eyes and read the captions again. They're still there. The Elector has freed Eden. — Marie Lu

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. — Ellen Glasgow

Yes, but look what a mess you have made of things prior to my arrival." Lady Maccon was not to be dissuaded from her chosen course of action. "Someone has to tell Conall that Kingair is to blame." "If none of them are changing, he'll find out as soon as he arrives. His lordship would not like you following him." "His lordship can eat my fat - " Lady Maccon paused, thought the better of her crass words, and said, " - does not have to like it. Nor do you. The fact remains that this morning Floote will secure for me passage on the afternoon's dirigible to Glasgow. His lordship can take it up with me when I arrive. — Gail Carriger

There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time provides special food for thought. It is that the virtues which are held less and less in esteem and which consequently become rarer and precisely those on which the British people justly prided themselves and in which they were generally agreed to excel. The virtues possessed by Anglo-Saxons in a higher degree than most other people, excepting only a few of the smaller nations, like the Swiss and the Dutch, were independence and self-reliance, individual initiative and local responsbility, the successful reliance on voluntary activity, noninterference with one's neighbor and tolerance of the different and queer, respect for custom and tradition, and a healthy suspicion of power and authority. — Friedrich Hayek

Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.
- T-shirt — Darynda Jones

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated. — Ellen Glasgow

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him. — Christian Morgenstern

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better. — Amy Poehler

You're going now?" Makin asked, putting down his bottle-in-a-basket.
"Well, unless you want to drink till we're all sunburnt and maudlin and then declare undying love for each other and part with drunken hugs?" I said. — Mark Lawrence