Rumpole Books Quotes & Sayings

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made. — Richard Petty

If I could remember their singing and write down the notes, no man who read that score would ever grow sick or old. — C.S. Lewis

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. — Arthur Capper

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. — Joseph Conrad

What I really wanted to say to him was: I love you. I love you. I love you. But you scare me so bad. But I love you. I love you. I love you so much. — Annabel Joseph

I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller. — Nicholas Haslam

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it. — Michael Jackson

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance. — Ron Eldard

....The important thing is not where we die but how we live. Being native to a place is a labor of love and a life's work. It means stitching your life to that of a place with a thread spun from mindfulness, attentiveness, husbandry, pilgrimage, and witness. Stories knit these components of practice together. Flung outward, they clothe our relationships; flung inward, they map the soul. Stories enable us to enter and dwell attentively in a place; they enable us to travel and return, then eventually to leave for good. We need stories to stay alive spiritually: without them we would all turn into hungry ghosts. Stories are the only things we can take with us out of this world. They are the wings that bear us up or the chains that drag us down. In the end, it is stories that enable us to die. — John Tallmadge

I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert. — Pablo Neruda

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works. — James Gray

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything... — Anthony Trollope