Peaks And Valleys Book Quotes & Sayings

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? — Lara Flynn Boyle

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football! — Pele

I knew suddenly that I could not endure another week in Venice, not another day of their gentle melancholy, not another hour of fashionable despair. — Bruce Sterling

As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground. — Banana Yoshimoto

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing. — Christopher Walken

The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection. — T.F. Hodge

She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back. — Robert Edsel

I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends. — David Beckham

I had starred in TV movies without much artistic value. They gave me a certain range. I knew that I was going to continue my studies, but I wanted to try something else on the side. I wanted to see what would come of it. — Clemence Poesy

The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly. — Harriet Quimby

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life. — Paul Gibbons

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness. — Sarina Bowen

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. — Kate Chopin