Nessie Ladle Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing gained in lamenting what never was. — Peter V. Brett

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times. — David Harvey

And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing. — Alex Pettyfer

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good. — Amy Summers

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. — Walter Lippmann

Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness — Munia Khan

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking
across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards. — Javier Cercas

Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age."
"I thought you liked redheads."
"I do. What's your point? — Christopher Moore

Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. — Terry Tempest Williams

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism ... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation. — Edward Weston

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening. — Tony Parsons

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets. — Anna Popplewell

Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors ... within about 24 months. — Don Yaeger