Kirkoswald Quotes & Sayings

But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can describe that? It is so easy for an Englishman to sneer at these chance collisions of human beings. To the insular cynic and the insular moralist they offer an equal opportunity. It is so easy to talk of "passing emotion," and how to forget how vivid the emotion was ere it passed. Our impulse to sneer, to forget, is at root a good one. We recognize that emotion is not enough, and that men and women are personalities capable of sustained relations, not mere opportunities for an electrical discharge. Yet we rate the impulse too highly. We do not admit that by collisions of this trivial sort the doors of heaven may be shaken open. — E. M. Forster

Ah! what a nuisance people's people are! — Oscar Wilde

Every exit is an Entry somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. — Camille Paglia

Stay off the bandwagon. More likely than not, your own way of getting there makes for a better journey. — Faydra D. Fields

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming. — Anthony Trollope

Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong ... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens. — Philip Yancey

I don't tell my mother what happened the night before. I'm too embarrassed to tell her that I allowed that fat nasty man to stick his tongue in my mouth. A small part of me is afraid to tell her the truth. What if she doesn't do anything with the information? She isn't protecting me from Billy Dean so why would I think she would call the police on Big Ray? It's easier to remain quiet and optimistic and think that if I had told her then maybe she would have become enraged and driven to his house and cracked him over the head with that blaring television set. Although I can't imagine my mother capable of that level of passion, part — Marlayna Glynn

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft ... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me. — Carol Rifka Brunt

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me. — Sandra Bullock