Glengyle Quotes & Sayings

Is that all?" asked Flambeau after a long pause. "Have we got to the dull truth at last?"
"Oh, no," said Father Brown.
As the wind died in the most distant pine woods with a long hoot as of mockery Father Brown, with an utterly impassive face, went on:
"I only suggested that because you said one could not plausibly connect snuff with clockwork or candles with bright stones. Ten false philosophies will fit the universe; ten false theories will fit Glengyle Castle. But we want the real explanation of the castle and the universe. But are there no other exhibits?"
Craven laughed, and Flambeau rose smiling to his feet and strolled down the long table.
[Ch.6] — G.K. Chesterton

An interesting fiction ... however paradoxical the assertion may appear ... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind. — James Fenimore Cooper

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. — Daniela Bobadilla

All children ... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world. — Thomas M. Disch

You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don't run around naked.'Why?'They just don't. — Renita D'Silva

It is a function of entrenched, intergenerational poverty that isolates too many lower-income Americans from even middle-class economic, cultural, and social opportunities and norms. — Yuval Levin

Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence. — Dharma Mittra

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own — Donald O. Clifton

I don't know if you're being smart or not, but I know that being smart doesn't always lead to being happy. And I'd rather be happy than anything else — Ryan Winfield

I love improvising. — Lasse Hallstrom

I'd fallen in love with the devil. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else. — Ellie Goulding

Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over. — Wilbur Ross

President Bush said global warming is happening much quicker than he thought, and then his staff pulled him aside and said 'It's just springtime.' — Jay Leno

But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play
and don't play to bring their parents glory. — Yogi Berra