Rabone Chesterman Quotes & Sayings

There are things you find nothing about in books — Joseph Conrad

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers. — Ian McKellen

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done. — Gene Hackman

A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading. — Karen Karbo

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling. — Garrison Keillor

Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by lithe limbs and brilliant blue eyes. Doctor Archer has never really understood women, nor has he ever had time for courtship; this is a sacrifice he has willingly made for his career. He thought - believed - for most of his adult life that his vocation was to tend the sick of mind. Romance was a frivolity, carnal urges something he successfully sublimated, resisting the drive to spoil himself. Now, in the overbearing loneliness of his 4am bed he touches himself in secret, panting and hungry and stunned by shame — John T. Fuller

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses. — Margaret Mead

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.'
~pg 107; Adam on friendship — Ann M. Martin

All right. Where are we going? — Diana Gabaldon