Pajonal Quotes & Sayings

Don't you own a dodo? — Jasper Fforde

I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy. — LeAnn Rimes

Yet it seems
Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
And there's but common greenness after that. — William Butler Yeats

In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.
In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.
I liked the Irish way better. — C.E. Murphy

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds. — Dave Barry

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. — Oscar Wilde

But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders. — Lemony Snicket

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable — May Sarton

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own. — Zadie Smith

In a way, an explanation had never been the point. She had simply liked being the only one who wanted to find out the truth. — Robert Galbraith

You cannot talk when you first arrive. It helps you to listen. — Mitch Albom

It doesn't matter how a novel was printed. What matters are the words in between the pages. — Giuseppe Bianco

Your bad taste is fucking immortal! — P.C. Cast

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish. — Julia Glass

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it. — Henry Ward Beecher