Pork Pies Quotes & Sayings

That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants - and should want - both. — Sigrid Nunez

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. — Alan Alda

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them. — Tim Fargo

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought. — John Harvey Kellogg

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies — John Cleese

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet. — Stephen Fry

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. — Isaac Hayes

I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged. There is no space for what wells up from the subconscious; those dreams and images live in deep still water and simply submerge when the day gets scattered. — May Sarton

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying. — Diane Glancy

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man. — Galileo Galilei

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere. — Colin Baker

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. — Harri Holkeri

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils. — John Ford

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. — Rudyard Kipling

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. — Samuel Adams

Religion: Together we can find the cure. — Richard Dawkins

In the 1990s, Elinor Ostrom, the American political scientist most responsible for reviving serious thought about commons, studies what specifically makes a commons successful. She concluded that a commons must have an evolving set of rules about access and usage and that it must have a way of punishing transgressions. It must also respect the particular character of the resource being managed and the people who have worked with that resource the longest. — Douglas Rushkoff

Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life. — Debasish Mridha