Porlock Hotel Quotes & Sayings

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. — Frank Leslie

Whoever invented English
should have learned
to spell. — Thanhha Lai

Reader, do you believe that there is such a thing as happily ever after? Or, like Despereaux, have you, too, begun to question the possibility of happy endings? — Kate DiCamillo

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she. — Honore De Balzac

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed. — Tony Blair

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions ... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it. — Sophia Loren

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future. — Frederic Martel?

And if clever rabbit doesn't quite have what it takes, abrasive Eeyore certainly doesn't either. Why not? Because of what we could call the Eeyore Attitude. You might say the while rabbit's little routine is that of knowledge for the sake of being clever, and while Owl's is that of knowledge for the sake of appearing wise, Eeyore's is knowledge for the sake of complaining about something. As anyone who doesn't have it can see, the Eeyore attitude gets in the way of things like wisdom and happiness, and pretty much prevents any sort of real accomplishment in life. — Benjamin Hoff

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing. — Andy Borowitz

According to the prevailing notion, freedom manifests as "preference-satisfying behavior." About the preferences themselves we are to maintain a principled silence, out of deference to the autonomy of the individual. They are said to express the authentic core of the self, and are for that reason unavailable for rational scrutiny. But this logic would seem to break down when our preferences are the object of massive social engineering, conducted not by government "nudgers" but by those who want to monetize our attention. — Matthew B. Crawford

She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone. — Chuck Wendig

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart. — Kemi Sogunle

God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail. — Winkie Pratney

I wanted to do it for you," he said. "I wanted to show you how much I would do,
how far I would go. How hard I would work. — Robyn Carr