Hackenschmidt Workout Quotes & Sayings

Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?"
"No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child."
"B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you! — Georgette Heyer

I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right. — Al Jarreau

The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation. — Frederick Lenz

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. — Arthur C. Clarke

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. — James Herriot

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities. — Bernard Marcus

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. — Iris Murdoch

When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way. — Scott Lynch

While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind. — Sigurd F. Olson

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty. — Ken Livingstone

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book. — Brian K. Vaughan