Jokull Andresson Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a time the English knew who they were. — Anna Pavlova

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one. — Joseph Conrad

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. — Oscar Wilde

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button. — Donald E. Westlake

Chapin was secured in the backseat - the motor-pool cars had rings bolted to the floor for just that reason - and he sat in his durance vile mumbling, ranting, threatening, and overusing the same naughty word. — Jeff Lindsay

Do you think they vacuum every day, like we do? — Jojo Moyes

It's natural to feel jittery around new people. But sometimes you can get over your jitters if you make a joke. So when the Swedish housekeeper brought her breakfast on a tray, Charity said something cheeky about eating Lady Margaret out of house and home. But the big red-faced woman took no notice at all. So then Charity had to look totally relaxed and unconcerned as she enjoyed her breakfast in bed, which was easy enough after the first bite. The spooky Swedish housekeeper really was a fabulous cook. And Charity believed believed in looking for the best in people. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. — Julian Barnes

It's the ignorant who find a cause and cling to it, for within that is the illusion of significance. Faith, a king, queen or Emperor, or vengeance ... all the bastion of fools. — Steven Erikson

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power. — Leo Tolstoy

Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong
Stay up
One day I might break
One day I might
b r e a k
free — Tahereh Mafi

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism. — Erich Fromm

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest. — Ray Stevenson

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture. — Laurie A. Helgoe