Mortimore And Company Quotes & Sayings

in 1935 the Irish government created the Irish Folklore Commission. In the following decades, Irish-speaking collectors scoured the countryside to record stories of saints, heroes, and spirits. Currently, more than a million and a half pages of folklore reside in the commission's collection which, since 1971, has been continued on by the Folklore Department at University College Dublin. One — Ryan Hackney

From an outside viewpoint it seems as if I had almost all a man could ask in reason. But when was a strong man in the grip of love ever reasonable? I think the Almighty took a pretty grave responsibility when He made men as He did. If I had been He, and understood the forces I was handling, I would have been too big a coward to do it. — Gene Stratton-Porter

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different. — Mark Messier

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him. — Yoshida Kenko

You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway. — Sophie Jordan

Well, it's a useful room." "Yes, I guess it's useful, all right. — John Knowles

I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin. — Nicholas Haslam

We're fortunate to have football on the space station. — Scott Kelly

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win. — Ho Chi Minh

The game had been played, and she had lost. — Sarah J. Maas

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves. — Honore De Balzac

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman — Ann Brashares