Rakstaff Quotes & Sayings

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'? — Drew Barrymore

Robert Frost said, No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. — Kim Addonizio

When I looked around, with my wife, Sarasota seemed like the best place in Florida. We settled about one mile from Siesta Key. — John Lutz

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern. — Keith Richards

The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine. Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in. — Frank McCourt

There were always such dwellings
the abode of the cook or the man who tended the yard, or the woman who did the washing and ironing; so normal and unexceptionable as to attract no attention, the places where lives were led in the shadow of the employer in the larger house. And the cause, Mma Ramotswe knew from long experience, of deep resentments and, on occasion, murderous hatreds. Those flowed from exploitation and bad treatment
the things that people would do to one another with utter predictability and inevitability unless those in authority made it impossible and laid down conditions of employment. She had seen shocking things in the course of her work, even here in Botswana, a good country where things were well run and people had rights; human nature, of course, would find its way round the best of rules and regulations. — Alexander McCall Smith

But money or no money we're all searching for the same things aren't we It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have. Love and happiness that's what it's all about — Jill Mansell

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young. — Olivia Newton-John

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry. — Voltaire