Harry Johnson Bartender Manual Quotes & Sayings

Teafortwo was a wyrman. Barrel-chested creatures like squat birds, with thick arms like a human dwarf's below those ugly, functional wings, the wyrmen ploughed the skies of New Crobuzon. Their hands were their feet, those arms jutting from the bottom of their squat bodies like crows' legs. They could pace a few clumsy steps here and there balancing on their palms, if they were indoors, but they preferred to careen over the city, yelling and swooping and screaming abuse at passers-by. The wyrmen were more intelligent than dogs or apes, but decidedly less than humans. They thrived on an intellectual diet of scatology and slapstick and mimicry, picking names for each other gleaned without understanding from popular songs and furniture catalogues and discarded textbooks they could just about read. Teafortwo's sister, Isaac knew, was called Bottletop; one of his sons Scabies. — China Mieville

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. — Thomas Carlyle

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way. — Jesse Eisenberg

Always is their thing. They'll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word always four million times in the last year. — John Green

England is governed not by logic but by parliament. — Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing." That word held so much power: the power to deny someone your true feelings in a moment of vulnerability. — R.S. Grey

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state. — Paul Weyrich

The excellence of every Art is its intensity. — John Keats

His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost. — Leslye Walton