Honourable Mention Quotes & Sayings

What's all this, I expect you're thinking, about "the tallest mountain in the world"? Everest, surely, deserves at least an honourable mention in this category? Well, it all depends on your point of view. Certainly, Everest stands a sturdy 29,028 feet above sea level, which is, in its way, impressive. But if you were going to climb Everest, you would probably start, fi you were using a reliable guide, somewhere in the Himalayas. Anywhere in the Himalayas is pretty damn high to start with, and so, to hear some people tell it, it's just a smartish jog to do the last little bit to the actual top of Everest. The way to keep it interesting these days is to do it without oxygen or in your underpants or something. — Douglas Adams

Loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars ... — John Geddes

In the double gloom of trees and fog, I could not see my guide; I could only follow his tread. Not the least fear had I: I believe I would have followed that frank tread, through continual night, to the world's end. — Charlotte Bronte

It's in the small moments that life is truly lived. — Marion Roach Smith

But yesterday the word of Caesar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there.
And none so poor to do him reverence.
O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men:
I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honourable men.
But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;
I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:
Let but the commons hear this testament
Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
And, dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Unto their issue. — William Shakespeare

But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. — Lauren DeStefano

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. — Abraham Verghese

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it. — Woody Allen

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away. — Catherine Deneuve

If it's public, it's not bonding. — Will Advise

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too. — Katherine Anne Porter

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country. — Samuel Johnson

Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless. — Francine Pascal

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality. — Eckhart Tolle

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con. — Marc Blucas

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years. — Nicholas Lea

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find. — Alice Hoffman