Portbury Docks Quotes & Sayings

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there. — Amy Hempel

For how long could we fail until we surrendered? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Evolution wasn't a blueprint; it was a series of mistakes that occasionally turned out to be beneficial. — Evan Currie

Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation. — Rabih Alameddine

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school ... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite. — Dominique Moceanu

Okay, so if the sky was killed, why do I look up and still see the sky? — Rick Riordan

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. — T. S. Eliot

This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins. — Kathy Bryson

The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's something inevitably nostalgic about a train book today. Trains attract us, but part of that attraction is cultural memory. — Brian Floca

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad. — David Millar

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate. — Wanda Koop

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements. — Doris Kearns Goodwin