Myerscough College Quotes & Sayings

Great-Uncle Merry, coming back towards the car from the Grey House, had suddenly stopped in his tracks in the middle of the road. He was gazing down at the sea; and she realised that he had caught sight of the yacht. What startled her was the expression on his face. Standing there like a craggy towering statue, he was frowning, fierce and intense, almost as if he were looking and listening with senses other than his eyes and ears. He could never look frightened, she thought, but this was the nearest thing to it that she had ever seen. Cautious, startled, alarmed . . . what was the matter with him? Was there something strange about the yacht? Then — Susan Cooper

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. — Peter Lynch

First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not to do it anymore. After that you look for signs of a Jekyll and Hyde situation, the good and the bad in a person sifted into separate compartments by some weird accident. Then, gradually, you realize that there isn't a reason, and it isn't two people you're dealing with, just one. The same one every time. — Helen Oyeyemi

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that. — Lawrence Kasdan

She heard a low laugh and glanced over her shoulder, meeting Gage's amused glaze. 'You're trouble', he mouthed.
'No,' Madison thought when she went all warm and gooey inside, 'I'm in trouble. — Debbie Mason

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. — A.R. Ammons

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world. — Michael Pollan

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races. — Ed Rendell

My hands are dying. — Courtney Summers

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. — Alexander Hamilton

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. — Frank Lampard

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy. — Henry David Thoreau