Rugeley Quotes & Sayings

I had slain my demons already, but the victories were fleeting; others had risen up quickly to replace them. My — Ransom Riggs

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it thus far, and no farther! — Edgar Allan Poe

We celebrate the event not the time. — Debasish Mridha

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world. — Helena Christensen

As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story. — Leslie Parrish

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them? — Cicely Tyson

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! — Nicholas Evans

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.
p.32 — Stephen Elliott

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad. — Jonathan Swift

The gardens at Rugeley had lots of separate lawns, paths, flower and vegetable borders, the pigeon coop, and plenty of low hedges, — Vanessa Steel