Jellicoes Flag Quotes & Sayings

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it. — Norman Maclean

Television wasn't getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking horses like Mr Ed or an absurdist pig like Arnold Ziffle ... Just like the heroic animals in silent films became comedians in talkies, animals on television were becoming jesters, something Rin Tin Tin had never been. — Susan Orlean

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero. — Clive Barker

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. — Katherine Graham

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you. — Sanford I. Weill

It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever. — Jeffrey Eugenides

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht

You think it's...like a prank. Like the time you and the guys soaped all the windows at the high school or rolled the football coach's car to the park and left it on top of the teeter-totter. What did you do, stay up late with a six-pack of beer, jerking off to porn, and then think I should put Caroline up here? — Robin York

My mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother all told me it was right, that without it a woman wouldn't be able to control herself, that she would end up a prostitute," said Aset, a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old whose own genitals had been mutilated when she was about seven years old. — Geraldine Brooks

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies. — Elena Ferrante

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own. — Charlie Day