Haddrell Street Quotes & Sayings

What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I! — Charles Dickens

Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it. — Retief Goosen

Lili lili birdbath
sitting on a dirtpath
minnow sat on the rim and drank
slipped and in the water she sank — Khaled Hosseini

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out. — Charles B. Rangel

I will advise you to wait until you are at least in the university, wait until you own yourself a little more. Do you understand?"
"Yes," Ifemelu said. She did not know what "own yourself a little more" meant. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. — Frank Abagnale

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay. — Asne Seierstad