Hadsall Creek Quotes & Sayings

The inhabitants of England in the age of Chaucer commonly used an expression, to be in hide and hair, meaning to be lost or beyond discovery. But then it disappears from the written record for four hundred years before resurfacing, suddenly and unexpectedly, in America in 1857 as neither hide nor hair. It is dearly unlikely that the phrase went into a linguistic coma for four centuries. So who was quietly preserving it for four hundred years, and why did it so abruptly return to prominence in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century in a country two thousand miles away? — Bill Bryson

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got. — Eddi Reader

For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not. — John C. Wright

just glanced towards the door, with a slight movement of the head, and then returned to my book. He immediately withdrew. This was better than if I had answered with more words, and in the passionate spirit to which my first impulse would have prompted. What a good thing it is to be able to command one's temper! I must labour to cultivate this inestimable quality: God only knows how often I shall need it in this rough, dark road that lies before me. In — Emily Bronte

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say. — Plutarch

I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!' — Sage Stallone

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog. — Milton Jones

To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one's own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God. — Dada Bhagwan

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil? — Marquis De Sade