Paignton Beach Quotes & Sayings

It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading. — Augustine Of Hippo

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience. — Chyler Leigh

What good is winning a battle, if you don't even realise there's a war going on? — Aravind Adiga

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan. — Coolio

The religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible — Christopher Hitchens

If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presuming to mention the unimportant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public examination of late Directors of a Royal British Bank. — Charles Dickens