Portbury 100 Quotes & Sayings

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in. — Edvard Moser

I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour. If I really had the courage of my convictions, I reasoned, I ought to redress the balance at least slightly. My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target. — Iain Banks

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. — Anna Magnani

You're stunning,' he said, eyeing her up and down. His irises weren't watery blue like most redheads, but a warm caramel brown. Ash's lady areas tingled, as though they too craved a cigarette. — Eve Dangerfield

The social space between people who don't know each other is form one to three and a half metres. - Beate Lonne — Jo Nesbo

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing
its goodness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete. — Steve Hagen

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are. — T.D. Jakes

a girl has got to be a daughter first. She have to learn that. And if she never learns how to be a daughter, she can't never learn how to be a woman. I mean a real woman: a woman good enough for a child; good enough for a man - good enough even for the respect of other women. — Toni Morrison