Mellor Estate Quotes & Sayings

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
Catherine Tate — Catherine Tate

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em. — Woody Hayes

Finally, you are in the most magical world having the most wonderful time. Let us not fill it with stress or anxieties. — Debasish Mridha

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. — Napoleon Hill

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain. — Garth Brooks

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful. — Maya Angelou

What a ruler has to rely upon is only the human heart. Human hearts are to the ruler what roots are to a tree, what oil is to a lamp, water to fish, fields to a farmer, or money to a merchant. — Su Shi

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. — John Schlesinger

The problem is that doctors today often assume that something mysterious and unidentified has gone wrong with labor or that the woman's body is somehow "inadequate" - what I call the "woman's body as a lemon" assumption. For a variety of reasons, a lot of women have also come to believe that nature made a serious mistake with their bodies. This belief has become so strong in many that they give in to pharmaceutical or surgical treatments when patience and recognition of the normality and harmlessness of the situation would make for better health for them and their babies and less surgery and technological intervention in birth. Most women need encouragement and companionship more than they need drugs. — Ina May Gaskin

Real friendship is a slow grower. — Lord Chesterfield