Haldermans Auctions Quotes & Sayings

Each new thing seems terrible because it is new, because it is a variation. But at the heart it is all the same ultimately. — A.N. Roquelaure

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax. — Edgar Allan Poe

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton
go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday
I don't know why
and my father had no name at all
his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me ... — Jasper Fforde

Once you get the beginning right, the ending almost writes itself. — Orson Scott Card

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car. — Daniel Radcliffe

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons! — Georgette Heyer

Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It's a terrible condition, to feel one's heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted. — Janet Turpin Myers

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. — Stephen Jay Gould

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film. — Douglas Booth