Salyards Bell Quotes & Sayings

Silly woman," he said in Gaelic. "You have not the brain of a fly!" I caught the words for "foolish," and "clumsy," in the subsequent remarks, but quickly stopped listening. I closed my eyes and lost myself instead in the dreamy pleasure of having my hair rubbed dry and then combed out. — Diana Gabaldon

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time. — Paul Muldoon

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. — Wang Yangming

Success is a place in time, Don't be late — Julian Pencilliah

Because history is not the background - history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times! — Philip Roth

It hurts me when we can only travel a short stretch on the same road — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

he - I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun - — Charlotte MacLeod

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons. — Shirley Jackson

Some consciences are fitted with automatic answering machine that work very well. But I never got the technology under control — Romain Gary

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits. — Claire Danes

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen. — Michael Mina

I'm silenced by his right hand cupping my chin and ear, his left hand flattening against my ribs as he gently pushes me back against the wall.
I can feel the brick pressing into my naked upper back, cold and rough. His kiss is slow, tender...firm. His lips are warm, tongue smooth and flat, filling my mouth...I can't even feel my own tongue...taking my breath away with his. — Willow Madison

Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral. — Frans De Waal

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. — Winston Churchill