Greensleeves Chords Quotes & Sayings

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world. — Salman Rushdie

On Thursday, I woke to find a perfect September morning, summer with the first gentle hint of autumn, exactly the wrong day to be away from the country. I would have gone for an enormous walk
except that, while in the bath, I saw exactly how to finish the book I was writing, after being stuck for weeks; though as things turned out, I doubt if I should have walked or written, because during breakfast I suddenly knew how to paint the view framed by my open window. I had been threatening to paint for months, sometimes seeing myself as a primitive, sometimes as an abstractionist. Today the primitive mood was in the ascendent. — Dodie Smith

But we simply can't attune to another in ways that no one has attuned to us. We can't open in another what is closed in ourselves. — Teri Quatman

I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer. — Anupam Kher

Hope is not a strategy - Traditional SRE saying — Various

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways. — Ron Chernow

You can't beat everyone up all the time with the same brush — Steve Claridge

It's not that the Davenports had never had black people around their house before, or even a Chinese guy once, but never a Malaysian who looked Chinese to some and Indian to others, fancied himself black at times, and wanted to be the next Lenny Bruce Lee; a preppy black football player who sounded like the president and read Plato in Latin; and a white woman who occasionally claimed to be Native American. They were like an overconstructed novel, each representative of some cul-de-sac of idiolect and stereotype, missing only a handicapped person - No! At Berkeley we say handi-capable person - and a Jew and a Hispanic, and an Asian not of the subcontinent, Louis always said. — T. Geronimo Johnson

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. — David Lloyd-Jones

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things. — Italo Calvino

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life. — Erich Fromm

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week. — Sean Hayes

What the hell? Jack was over six feet tall and two hundred pounds with arms like a steel beam. He couldn't get away from that pasty-faced piece of painted pine straw? What a guy. I wanted to punch him in the mouth. — Fletcher McHale

Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's gold. — Bruce Littlefield