Prunesquallors Quotes & Sayings

Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion to accumulate knowledge of any and every kind consumed him; but only as a means to an end. He must know all things, for only so might he have, when situations arose in the future, a full pack of cards to play from. He imagined himself occasions when the conversation of one from who he foresaw advancement might turn to astronomy, metaphysics, history, chemistry, or literature, and he realized that to be able to drop into the argument a lucid and exact thought, an opinion based on what might *appear* to be a life-time study, would instantaneously gain more for him than waiting until the conversation turned upon what lay within his scope of experience. — Mervyn Peake

It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods. — Devon Bostick

In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse — Molly Caldwell Crosby

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds. — Barnett Newman

One of the primary reasons that men undertake the teaching of false doctrine is greed. — Curtis A. Chamberlain

This book is about cultivating habits that let you become organized enough to get results for your students and to make your life more fun and less stressful. — Maia Heyck-Merlin

Steerpike was, of course, alive with ideas and projects. These two half-witted women were a gift. That they should be the sisters of Lord Sepulchrave was of tremendous strategic value. They would prove an advance on the Prunesquallors, if not intellectually at any rate socially, and that at the moment was what mattered. And in any case, the lower the mentality of his employers the more scope for his own projects. — Mervyn Peake

If a woman love you, truly loves you, baby, she lets you be the man you have to be. She doesn't change you into the man she wants you to be. — Kristen Ashley

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant. — Henry Seidel Canby