Rawdon Quotes & Sayings

Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind. — John B. S. Haldane

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas. — Kathleen Hanna

Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine. — Martin Van Creveld

I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids. — John Salmons

I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried "Le Vesconte Point," but Captain Crozier vetoed that idea, saying that if we named every place where one of us might end up buried after the dead person there, we'd run out of land before we ran out of names. — Dan Simmons

Grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after — Willa Cather

Coffe is the perfume of morning. — Charlaine Harris

The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out. — Dan Simmons

When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times. — Cheech Marin

Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The wonderful thing about Marla was that she understood Rachel's desire to talk endlessly about the sort of adult that Janie might have become, to wonder how many children she would have had and the sort of man she would have married. It kept her alive, for just those few moments. Ed had hated those hypothetical conversations so much, he'd leave the room. He couldn't understand Rachel's need to wonder what could have been, rather than just accepting that it never would be. — Liane Moriarty

How could they do it, how could they?'
'I don't know, but they did it.They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do - seems that only children weep — Harper Lee

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot. — Alec Baldwin

Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure. — Jane Austen

If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner. — Andy Rooney

Your heart is able to see things that your eyes aren't able to. — Kholoud Yasser

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it? — Dan Simmons