Old Devonshire Quotes & Sayings

Just because something is weird and hard to understand doesn't mean it's creative. — Jesse Andrews

Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market. — Daphne Du Maurier

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! — Philip Roth

My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from. — Quentin Tarantino

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.' — Susan Sarandon

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design. — Seth Godin

I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. — Sullivan Stapleton

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. — Ken Livingstone

I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt. — Sara Rue

It's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them. — Scott Westerfeld

No trouble, no matter how great the trouble is, should prevent you from praying. — T. B. Joshua

Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks. — Ram Shriram

We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The best-adjusted people are the
'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are. — Isabel Briggs Myers

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. — John Sergeant Wise

No problem except old age ever vanquished my mother. — Miles Franklin