Newcastles Place Quotes & Sayings

Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals — Yann Martel

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times? — Catherine Cookson

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use
high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject
there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical. — Richard Rodriguez

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. — Richard Hooker

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. — Henry Bolingbroke

Indeed, mother, you are always our helper."
"For what else are we born? — Alan Paton

The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them. — Francis De Sales

Love is like a fly on the wall, you must catch it while you can. — Rachael JanLynnette McCormick

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure. — Joshua Harris

I understood early that beauty was power. — Kevyn Aucoin

A good romance novel is like a bubble bath...steamy, relaxing, and over way too soon. — Donna Marie Rogers

Give no one in all the world the power to deflect you from your goal, your aim in life, which is to express your hidden talents to the world, to serve humanity, and to reveal more and more of God's wisdom, truth, and beauty to all people in the world. Remain true to your ideal. Know definitely and absolutely that whatever contributes to your peace, happiness, and fulfillment must of necessity bless all men who walk the earth. The harmony of the part is the harmony of the whole, for the whole is in the part, and the part is in the whole. All you owe the other, as Paul says, is love, and love is the fulfilling of the law of health, happiness, and peace of mind. — Joseph Murphy

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. — Alan Joshua

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. — Djuna Barnes