Labroy Shipyard Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway. — Jennifer Aniston

I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh. — Susan Thurman

Harry could come and go as he pleased; he was always a visitor in his own home. He never belonged to Wideacre as I belonged. Only Papa, the land and I were the constant elements in my life. Papa, the land and I had been inseparable since the first time I had seen Wideacre in its wonderful wholeness from between the hunter's ears. Papa, the land and I would be here forever. — Philippa Gregory

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that
perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims ... — Oscar Wilde

Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply. — Scott Morse

Again.
Apparently, three broken engagements weren't enough. It was her duty to marry, and marry she must. — Monica McCarty

In America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

An epic simplicity — Yann Martel

Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts. — Kevin Vanhoozer

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The best part of the Western tradition has included a recognition of and respect for the individual as a living entity. The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to to support society. — Joseph Campbell

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse. — George Galloway