Rafterys Quotes & Sayings

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. — Pierre Bourdieu

Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything.
Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie.
The older you get the more they'll want your stories.
Make them up. Talk to stones. Short-out electric
fences. Swim with the sea turtle into the moon. Learn
how to die. Eat moonshine pie. Drink wild geranium
tea. Run naked in the rain. Everything that happens
will happen and none of us will be safe from it.
Pull up anchors. Sit close to the god of night.
Lie still in a stream and breathe water. Climb to the
top of the highest tree until you come to the branch
where the blue heron sleeps. Eat poems for breakfast.
Wear them on your forehead. Lick the mountain's
bare shoulder. Measure the color of days
around your mother's death. Put your hands over
your face and listen to what they tell you. — Ellen Kort

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities. — Michael Gove

You can only lead if the people that you're leading want to be led. — Arthur Darvill

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. — Seth Godin

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts, — George Eastman

I'm 28, and for the next six or seven years my goal is to try to fight for the yellow jersey. If I can win it once I would be chuffed to bits. — Chris Froome

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime. — Ted Turner

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that. — Richard Branson

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point. — Moby