Mbany Monkies Quotes & Sayings

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe

He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood. — George R R Martin

But jest apart
what virtue canst thou trace
In that broad trim that hides thy sober face?
Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice
And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice?
Then for thine accent
what in sound can be
So void of grace as dull monotony? — George Crabbe

Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace. — Patrick McGrath

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. — Neil Kinnock

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them. — Nigel Short

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me. — Harriet Tubman

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses. — Wallace Stevens

To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses. — Timur Vermes

Billy got off his lounge chair now, went into the bathroom and took a leak. The crowd went wild. — Kurt Vonnegut