Numenius Hudsonicus Quotes & Sayings

The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down. — G. Willow Wilson

Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay. — Kelley Armstrong

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder? — Bruce Willis

There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done. — Debasish Mridha

Dude, make me a Dark-Hunter. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. — Tom Mison

Think positive, Butch. — Horace Dade Ashton

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that. — Robbie Fowler

And when one of her girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it. — Fredrik Backman

The first dinner-party of a bride's career is a momentous occasion, entailing a world of small anxieties. The accomplishments which have won her acclaim in the three years since she left the schoolroom are no longer enough. It is no longer enough to dress exquisitely, to chuse jewels exactly appropriate to the situation, to converse in French, to play the pianoforte and sing. Now she must turn her attention to French cooking and French wines. Though other people may advise her upon these important matters, her own taste and inclinations must guide her. She is sure to despise her mother's style of entertaining and wish to do things differently. In London fashionable people dine out four, five times a week. However will a new bride - nineteen years old and scarcely ever in a kitchen before - think of a meal to astonish and delight such jaded palates? — Susanna Clarke

In a wartime survey conducted by a team of food-habits researchers, only 14 percent of the students at a women's college said they liked evaporated milk. After serving it to the students sixteen times over the course of a month, the researchers asked again. Now 51 percent liked it. As Kurt Lewin put it, People like what they eat, rather than eat what they like. — Mary Roach

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them. — John White Geary

What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do?
-Darney to Lucie — Charles Dickens

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. — Michael Crichton