Micklegate Takeaway Quotes & Sayings

I've been doing this a long time, and I've come to learn that predictions don't mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there's nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that's not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left. — Nicholas Sparks

Her skin glowed in dawn's soft light sneaking in through curtains, and she stretched her arms up toward the ceiling in a move that elongated everything above her waist and below his belt. — Avery Flynn

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970. — John McGahern

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question. — Park Chan-wook

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes. — Kevin Bacon

The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. And in this work every one who can think may aid first by forming clear ideas himself, and then by endeavoring to arouse the thought of those with whom he comes in contact. — Henry George

It still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco. — Jane Smiley

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. — Joseph Jefferson

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee. — Stephen King

On the appointed day
I think it was the next day, but no matter
Traddles and I repaired to the prison where Mr. Creakle was powerful. It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vast expense. I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had proposed to spend one half the money it had cost, on the erection of an industrial school for the young, or a house of refuge for the deserving old. — Charles Dickens

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad. — Kirsty Gallacher

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality. — Cortney S. Warren