Hargate Hill Quotes & Sayings

Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! — Robert Louis Stevenson

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries. — David Benedictus

When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-good chemicals, such as endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Problems occur during the brief intervals between the finishing of one work and the beginning of another. During these intervals, my biology starts to get filled with stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin, that worsens my OCD. That is why, I can't sit still even a day after I finish writing a book. Because if I do, my OCD begins to suffocate me inside my head. Hence, as soon as I deliver a work, I have to start working on my next scientific literature. — Abhijit Naskar

It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance. — Franz Kafka

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. — Paul Johnson

There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot! — Ivana Trump

I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids. — William Goldman

One, two, three, four, turn your poles
Give me a cup of sweet poitin
Madness from the mountains crawling
When I first saw you, my own Aisling — Shane MacGowan

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks. — Chuck Berry

To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse. — Maryam D'Abo

The voice belonged to Ray, — Lindsay Ashford

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti. — Paul Goldberger