Pentelow Practice Quotes & Sayings

I wrote, and sometimes, when I was stuck, I hit the road. I ate pasties in the Upper Peninsula and hush puppies in Cairo. I did my best not to write about any place I had not been. — Neil Gaiman

The building he took her to was an abandoned foundry out in the countryside and rain leaked in everywhere. — Donald Wells

Fear makes a cub sound like a lion.
Faith makes a lion sound like a cub. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that's where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind's directives. — H.E. Davey

The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his world shut out the broader horizon of affairs. Prejudice can maintain walls that no invention can remove. — Joseph Jastrow

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart. — Bobby Bonilla

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country. — David Hume

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

I look like Julian Clary on steroids. — Jo Brand

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. — Virginia McKenna

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ? — Anatoli Boukreev

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners. — Christopher Lee

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. — Carlisle Floyd

Stay out of this," she (Christy) snapped at me, wiping futilely at her cheeks. "This isn't your business."
"When you blamed Adam, whose only fault that I can see is that he has poor taste in wives, you made it my business," I told her.
Honey cleared her throat. "You do know you are one of his wives, right?"
I raised an eyebrow. "Happily, he doesn't know how bad off he is with me - and I intend that he never will. — Patricia Briggs