Oakdene Quotes & Sayings

It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. They wanted to be friends. It was almost a matter of principle. She was as intelligent as any Fellow of King's - though he thought she did not know it - he was in love with her mind as it followed clues through labyrinths. Love is, among many other things, a response to energy, and Griselda's mind was precise and energetic. He wanted to make love to her too. — A.S. Byatt

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice. — Sara Zarr

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey. — William Morley Punshon

I couldn't toast a piece of bread with the amount of heat they were putting on you — Jessica Lange

The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures. — Samuel Beckett

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals. — Doris Kearns Goodwin