Purton Air Quotes & Sayings

It may look as though I do not know how to start. Funny sight, the elderly gentleman who comes lumbering by, jowl flesh flopping, in a valiant dash for the last bus, which he eventually overtakes but is afraid to board in motion and so, with a sheepish smile, drops back, still going at a trot. Is it that I dare not make the leap? It roars, gathers speed, will presently vanish irrevocably around the corner, the bus, the motorbus, the mighty montibus of my tale. Rather bulky imagery, this. I am still running. — Vladimir Nabokov

Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet. — Carl Sagan

I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life. — Dave Grohl

Shirley took the view that the past disintegrated if you never mentioned it. — J.K. Rowling

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. — Jeffrey Eugenides

When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with Thaniel's never-read copy of Anna Karenina. The Russians, he said, knew how to write genuinely boring novels, and he would only stop being afraid when he was bored enough. They were all the more boring because he could remember reading the end in the recent future. — Natasha Pulley

Procrastinate strategically ... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity. — Adam Grant

Do not mess with my friends, myself or my Prada. — Robyn Peterman

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — Virginia Woolf

Tis one thing, brother Shandy, for a soldier to hazard his own life - to leap first down into the trench, where he is sure to be cut in pieces: - 'Tis one thing, from public spirit and a thirst of glory, to enter the breach the first man, - To stand in the foremost rank, and march bravely on with drums and trumpets, and colours flying about his ears: - 'Tis one thing, I say, brother Shandy, to do this, - and 'tis another thing to reflect on the miseries of war; - to view the desolations of whole countries, and consider the intolerable fatigues and hardships which the soldier himself, the instrument who works them, is forced (for sixpence a day, if he can get it) to undergo. — Anonymous

Schneider has made a career of telling the public that the climate is going to change drastically, and indeed every spring and fall he's been right. — P. J. O'Rourke

I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest. — Mark Shand

I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love. — Michel Houellebecq

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism. — Dag Hammarskjold

Damn. Sometimes I really could be a cold-hearted, insensitive bitch. — Jennifer Estep