Pidderpadderpaws Quotes & Sayings

I have a soft spot for cashmere - even though that is not a particularly sustainable fabric, I do invest in quality, so it is sustainable in the sense that it is not just throwaway fashion and I keep it for a long, long time. — Suzy Amis

I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever. — Roald Dahl

As usual, the oldest women were the most decorated, and the ugliest the most conspicuous. If there was a beautiful lily, or a sweet rose, you had to search for it, concealed in some corner behind a mother with a turban, or an aunt with a bird of paradise. — Alexandre Dumas

Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN. — Mary W. Tileston

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to ... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne. — Abigail Adams

Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with. — Paul Weller

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed. — Jennifer McMahon

We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them
the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control. — Valerie Jarrett

Why try to fit in when you a stand out? — Joe Budden

But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation! — Eugene Ionesco

Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason. — Samuel Johnson