Rawlinson Quotes & Sayings

Those who aspire to less accomplish less. There can be no doubt. It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them." He shot Drizzt his typical wry smile. "At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his effort! — R.A. Salvatore

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. — Timothy Noah

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education. — Marion Brady

What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing. — Tyne Daly

Nothing makes a twin parent more proud than having dozens of people tell you how cute your twins are. — Joe Rawlinson

Steel identifies what he calls two faulty believes: first, that life should be easy, and second, that our self-worth is dependent on our success. — Daniel J. Levitin

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve. — William S. Burroughs

Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing different affinities. — George Rawlinson

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. — Jackie Chan

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left. — Peter S. Beagle

I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term 'holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself with such petty things as fingerprint powder, telltale pieces of pocket fluff and inane footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs Rawlinson.

"Let me give you an example. If you go to an acupuncturist with toothache he sticks a needle instead into your thigh. Do you know why he does that, Mrs Rawlinson?

No, neither do I, Mrs Rawlinson, but we intend to find out. A pleasure talking to you, Mrs Rawlinson. Goodbye. — Douglas Adams

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt — Henryk Sienkiewicz

If I had all the money I spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End) — Vivian Stanshall

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable - in other words, in an art of life. — Margaret Anderson