John Woodall Quotes & Sayings

It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man. — G.K. Chesterton

You can ask whatever you want, doesn't mean I'm going to answer. — Chelsea M. Cameron

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long. — Herodotus

Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton.
"Look Norton," she said, "This is a baby."
Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the information.
There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp.
"You've finally done it," she said to me.
"What?" I wanted to know.
"Most mothers would have said, 'Look, Charlie, this is a cat.'"
I started to laugh.
"Not with Norton," I said. — Peter Gethers

Those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it. — Rene Descartes

If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. — Hammurabi

I've got my doubts, there's no doubt about it — Alan Brazil

power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Branding is your promise to the reader. It's the words, images and emotions that surround your work and the way readers think of you. — Joanna Penn

Yes, Mo would come. Meggie could think of nothing else as Fenoglio led her away with him, his arm around her as if he could really protect her from Capricorn and Basta and all the others. But he couldn't. Would Mo be able to protect her? Of course not. He mustn't come, she thought. Please. Perhaps he won't be able to find his way in again! He mustn't come. Yet there was nothing she wanted more, nothing in the whole wide world. — Cornelia Funke

She smiles at me as if forced at knifepoint, the kind of smile that comes purely from manners, like the smile you give your grandmother when she gives you the rotten-cabbage-colored sweater she's been knitting. — Anna Banks

I love to be comfortable, but I also love to play up the glamour. — Jessica Simpson

My happiness is not free to everyone...Abuse my smile and it will cost you... — Virginia Alison

What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk? — Steve Vernon

For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury. — Jolene Tan