Micklegate Bar Quotes & Sayings

Why should I put a bunch of Cadillacs on the ice, when I can sell out with a bunch of volkswagens — Harold Ballard

Was there a plan here, apart from 'let's all go to the meadow and get turned into confetti by the sheep'? — Seanan McGuire

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar. — Richie Havens

When men at last accept the fact that they cannot successfully lie to themselves, and at last learn to take themselves seriously, they discover previously unknown and often remarkable recuperative powers within themselves. — Rollo May

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting. — Eric Cantona

What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York's dead ... of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to spare his life. They cut his throat. Their heads were then impaled on York's Micklegate Bar to please the House of Lancaster, to please a harlot and a madman. She had my father's head crowned with straw and she left a spike between the two ... That one, she said, was for York's other son. — Sharon Kay Penman

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. — Jill Lepore