Larkin Hull Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to have a go at something again when you failed at it as you've got nowt to lose. — Karl Pilkington

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it. — NeNe Leakes

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. — Alan Bennett

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable. — Terry Pratchett

I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied. — Tony Blair

HEADMASTER: I was a geographer. I went to Hull.
IRWIN: Oh. Larkin.
HEADMASTER: Everybody says that. 'Hull? Oh, Larkin.' I don't know about the poetry ... as I say, I was a geographer ... but as a librarian he was pitiless. The Himmler of the Accessions Desk. And now, we're told, women in droves.
Art. They get away with murder. — Alan Bennett

When the beer came, I dipped a finger in it and wet down each corner of the paper napkin to anchor it, so it would not come up with the mug each time and make me appear ridiculous. I — Charles Portis

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. — Ravi Zacharias

There is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every past is worth condemning. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In my eyes, America seemed to have an unabashed sense of freedom and fun while England was a little bit more reserved. Truthfully, I pull very much from both places with so much to appreciate from each culture. — Samantha Newark

Gregory Bateson said, "The source of all our problems today comes from the gap between how we think and how nature works. — Anonymous

In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time? — Claire Danes

Creativity is really the structuring of magic. — Anne Rush