Peter Newkirk Quotes & Sayings

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself. — Brian O'Driscoll

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be . — Michelle Branch

A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me
a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly — Charlotte Bronte

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it. — J.K. Rowling

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. — Winston S. Churchill

~ "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. — Jack Handy

He stretches his legs out underneath the table and checks Facebook on his phone. It tells him things he doesn't need to know about people he hasn't seen in years. He absorbs their aggressively worded opinions and quasi-political hate-speak. He sees a photograph of his ex-girlfriend with her new boyfriend smiling at a picnic and he realises, with a strange cascade of emptiness, that she is pregnant and wearing an engagement ring. The comments are jubilant. He reads every word before he forces himself to put his phone down. A loneliness descends. He feels its familiar talons grabbing him violently out of his chair and hanging him, swinging, up by the ceiling. Pete — Kate Tempest

I'd like to be better," Jared said abruptly. "I'd like to be better, to you. I want to make things better for you."

"That would be nice," said Kami. "However, you could not have faced down the sorcerer with me today."

"Why not?" Jared asked, and looked at her under his lashes. "As long as I was with you, and I hadn't run off to do something suicidal on my own. As long as we were together, wouldn't that be better?"

"Usually yes, today no," Kami told him. "Because it was in a ladies' bathroom, and that would be scandalous — Sarah Rees Brennan

I have a passion to do theater. — Amy Irving

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive. — Stephen Fry

I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we're together-everyone's voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles. — Kenneth Logan

The putrid carnal waste dump my skin and hair had become. An irate woman beating me with her placenta would have been more welcome than the copious amount of ... snot gluing my fingers together. — Cecy Robson

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured. — Max Brooks

There is always a method in the seeming chaos of creation" - The Monk — Shashi