Jessica Wakefield Quotes & Sayings

I see the people who have lived here forever. They walk quickly, indifferent to the buildings. They cross the squares without stopping. I — Jhumpa Lahiri

The world feel empty without a best friend .true friends no doubt are rare in this world — Nimra

There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do ... there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand. — Charles Simonds

People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realize. You see someone in school everyday, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette of a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night's air raid. But you don't talk so much about what was the nastiest thing you ever said to your mother, or how you pretended to be David Balfour, the hero of Kidnapped, for the whole of the year when you were 13, or what you imagine yourself doing with the pilot who looks like Leslie Howard if you were alone in his bunk after a dance. — Elizabeth Wein

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality. — Joseph Addison

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. — Ralph W. Gerard