Nightcaps Quotes & Sayings

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms. — Franklin Raines

A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill. — Charles Dickens

We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome. — Joel Brown

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. — Heinrich Heine

He was ... wearing a tasselled velvet nightcap that I [Amy] noticed the Doctor eyeing up. If Boris didn't watch out, that'd go missing and we'd never hear the end of 'Nightcaps are cool. — James Goss

The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively. — Iain M. Banks

The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against the stones." Don't read that to me on Sunday morning and say "This is the word of the Lord." It's like that crazy man down in Alabama who wanted to put the Ten Commandments in his courtroom. — John Shelby Spong

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. — Laurence Housman

Many children do not realize that they have a problem, much less that they need to seek help. One youngster commented that he thought all people saw words 'running off the page but that they were all quick enough to catch them'. He was not. — Dr Kate McMahon

Talent is nothing but long patience. — Gustave Flaubert

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking. — Aron Ralston

Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness. — Sean Stephenson

And because he loves me, he tries to understand me. It is my fear that stops me talking to him. Because even if it is irrational and it isn't what he wants to hear, Keith has loved me for so long, he'd find a way to make what I feel work for us both. I would do the same for him. That's what our love is about. — Dorothy Koomson

Seems like the kind that's easier to break than bend, which makes her no use to us. — Skye Callahan