Sathers Quotes & Sayings

By the report which he hastened over to Kellynch to make, Admiral Croft was a native of Somersetshire, who having acquired a very handsome fortune, was wishing to settle in his own country, and had come down to Taunton in order to look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood, which, however, had not suited him; that accidentally hearing
(it was just as he had foretold, Mr Shepherd observed, Sir Walter's concerns could not be kept a secret,)
accidentally hearing of the possibility of Kellynch Hall being to let, and understanding his (Mr Shepherd's) connection with the owner, he had introduced himself to him in order to make particular inquiries, and had, in the course of a pretty long conference, expressed as strong an inclination for the place as a man who knew it only by description could feel; and given Mr Shepherd, in his explicit account of himself, every proof of his being a most responsible, eligible tenant. — Jane Austen

Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his. — Robert Galbraith

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior — Romain Gary

The books so fired me with the desire for travel, adventure, romance, that I was miserable most of the time. — Jack Black

You get up, you go to work, you come home, you eat food that's very similar to what you had yesterday or last week, you sit in front of the shows you always watch, and finally you go to the same old bed. — Michael Marshall

It is asked whether, in fact, the leader makes propaganda, or whether propaganda makes the leader. There is a widespread impression that a good press agent can puff up a nobody into a great man.
The answer is the same as that made to the old query as to whether the newspaper makes public opinion or whether public opinion makes the newspaper. There has to be fertile ground for the leader and the idea to fall on. But the leader also has to have some vital seed to sow. To use another figure, a mutual need has to exist before either can become positively effective. Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear. — Edward L. Bernays

The prosperity achieved through slavery had a way of blinding men's hearts to the evil of their own hands. — Ian Tregillis

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up. — Lev Grossman

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle. — Vayalar Ravi

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. — Joni Mitchell

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze. — Travis Fimmel