Privet Bush Quotes & Sayings

For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor. — John Barrasso

The power of imagination is a miracle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say. — Wynn Bullock

This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home. — Mirabai Starr

Wink? she thinks. Where the fuck is Wink? — Robert Jackson Bennett

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it. — Amanda Beard

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled. — Christian Louboutin

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind. — Kofi Annan

Never throw the letter Q into a privet bush. — Douglas Adams

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths. — Julian Barnes

And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. — Terry Pratchett

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. — Jerry Spinelli

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. — Dorothy Day

We went through all the usual exchanges dictated by Hollywood and polite society. She tried to scream and bite the palm of my hand, and I told her to be quiet because I wasn't going to hurt her unless she shouted. She shouted and I hurt her. Pretty standard stuff, really. — Hugh Laurie

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable. — Douglas Adams

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. — Oscar Niemeyer

He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn't stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away.
During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox. — Douglas Adams