Offa Quotes & Sayings

When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape. — Kate Atkinson

Have you thrown 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' at her yet? — Elle Lothlorien

Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Harriet laughed, remembering suddenly that a novelist owes a duty to her newspaper reporters. — Dorothy L. Sayers

For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy. — Max Stirner

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high. — Stephen King

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources. — Lamar S. Smith

We could live offa the fatta the lan'. — John Steinbeck

I couldn't even masturbate without fearing I'd cry out his name and scare the damn dog. — Karina Halle

Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first. — Vicki Pettersson

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me. Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah'd take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her. She would expound what Ah felt. But somehow she got lost offa de highway and next thing Ah knowed here you was in de world. — Zora Neale Hurston

King Offa's dyke, — John B. Hattendorf

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn. — Chuck Eddy

Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa's reign is a gold coin that is kept in the British Museum. On one side, it carries the inscription Offa Rex (Offa the King). But, turn it over and you are in for a surprise, for in badly copied Arabic are the words La Illaha Illa Allah ('There is no god but Allah alone'). This coin is a copy of an Abbasid dinarfrom the reign of Al-Mansur, dating to 773, and was most probably used by Anglo-Saxon traders. It would have been known even in Anglo-Saxon England that Islamic gold dinars were the most important coinage in the world at that time and Offa's coin looked enough like the original that it would have been readily accepted abroad. — Jim Al-Khalili

Naw, it's real. Ah couldn't stand it if he wuz tuh quit me. Don't know whut Ah'd do. He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull. Then we lives offa dat happiness he made till some mo' happiness come along. — Zora Neale Hurston

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway. — John Lennon

The priests are like Offa," I said. "They want us to be their dogs, well schooled, grateful and obedient, and why? So they can get rich. They tell you pride is a sin? You're a man! It's like telling you breathing is a sin, and once they've made you feel guilty for daring to breathe, they'll give you absolution in return for a handful of silver. — Bernard Cornwell

The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want. — Robert Ley

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation. — Alice Foote MacDougall