Liquorice Plant Quotes & Sayings

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion. — Robert Burns

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running. — Ben Bernanke

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going. — Julie Kavner

If you can be heard then you exist. — Fredrik Backman

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself. — Emily Dickinson

To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me. — Trinny Woodall

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump. — Stephen King

Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners. — Jennifer Haigh

If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new — Penelope Trunk

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. — Lord Byron

[E]ducation is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of elementary and secondary education, of course ... . I began to remember what it had been like: the tremendous excitement of the first couple of years, when kids imagine that great secrets are going to be unfolding before them, then the disappointment that gradually sets in when you begin to realize the truth: There's plenty of learning to do, but it's not the learning you wanted. It's learning to keep your mouth shut, learning how to avoid attracting the teacher's attention when you don't want it, learning not to ask questions, learning how to pretend to understand, learning how to tell teachers what they want to hear, learning to keep your own ideas and opinions to yourself, learning how to look as if you're paying attention, learning how to endure the endless boredom. — Daniel Quinn

It amazes me, how the pursuit of wisdom tends to turn people into shells of their former selves. — J.M. Darhower

The newly developed snarky side of my personality wanted to tell him 'There's no crying in vamp battles. — Robyn Jones

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it? Not I. Here I am, weeping soft tears of myrrh, to prove it. — Dorothy Dunnett