Idling Stop Quotes & Sayings

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else. — Caroline Llewellyn

If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary, somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'. — Etienne

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have. — Vera Farmiga

I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that. — Kgalema Motlanthe

An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that's out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. — Vera Nazarian

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration. — Bryan Mosley

All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers. — Cornelia Funke

The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened. — Kelly Jones

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off. — David Axelrod

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going. — Gustave Flaubert

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. — Madeleine L'Engle

Her words felt like a new beginning, a turning of a page, and, ominously, rang like the beginning of a final chapter. — Darcy Leech

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves. — Albert Goldbarth

Longing on a large scale makes history. — Don DeLillo