Inkpot Award Quotes & Sayings

Swallowing pride rarely gives you indigestion. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge. — Mia Wasikowska

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House. — Gwen Ifill

The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer. — Judy Horacek

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though! — Dennis Franz

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. — Samuel Johnson

That was why so many Jews back then understood the American Negro; in Europe the Jew had been a Negro for more than a thousand years. — Walter Mosley

Don't be disappointed if the whole world is against you, maybe it is because you are a tough ass. — M.F. Moonzajer

It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to. — Thomas Gravesen

By then Ser Gregor Clegane was in position at the head of the lists. He was huge, the biggest man that Eddard Stark had ever seen. Robert Baratheon and his brothers were all big men, as was the Hound, and back at Winterfell there was a simpleminded stableboy named Hodor who dwarfed them all, but the knight they called the Mountain That Rides would have towered over Hodor. He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. His destrier seemed a pony in between his armored legs, and the lance he carried looked as small as a broom handl — George R R Martin

Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs. — Sigurd F. Olson