Prestbury Quotes & Sayings

It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life. — Cassandra Clare

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love — Pope John Paul II

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless. — Alexandra Fuller

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better. — Craig Johnston

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them. — Richard Dawson

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize. — Oscar Wilde

I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed.
This is history, and it is also the truth. — Andrew Smith

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up. — George R R Martin

It is not about what I want from you, Rita. It is about what I want to offer you. What I want to give you. I want to give you an escape. — Aubrey Morgan

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait. — John Dryden

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. — Diane Black

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time. — Rainer Maria Rilke

We have delegated authority to establish His Kingdom wherever the sole of our foot treads. But the fact is, while God calls — Bill Johnson

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. — Ellen Ochoa