Northwesterly Breeze Quotes & Sayings

And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging and drowning! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up. — Ethel Waters

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen

Sounds come/ to the ear,// transformed. — Ronald Johnson

Just as Freud couldn't always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn't always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian. — Jonathan Rosenbaum

Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir."
"By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice? — P.G. Wodehouse

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. — Mother Teresa

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction. — Pierre Daninos

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe. — Helen Mirren

After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing — William J. Coyne

Man was not intended to live alone ... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored. — John Everett Millais

I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable. — Alber Elbaz

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother. — Ted Demme

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. — J. F. C. Fuller

I've been in love once and if I felt it coming on again I tell you I'd emigrate. — Agatha Christie