Scones And Clotted Quotes & Sayings

I like poisons, the slowest

and drinks, the stronges

and coffee, the bitterest

and the craziest hallucinations.

You can even throw me off a cliff, I'll say:

So what? I love to fly — Bruna Lombardi

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful. — Gracie Gold

Were the Founding Fathers wise and just men trying to achieve a good balance? In fact, they did not want a balance, except one which kept things as they were, a balance among the dominant forces at that time. — Howard Zinn

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. — Aberjhani

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. — Wilfrid Sheed

And then I swallowed hard, knowing that out of everyone, I was best at lying to myself. — Jessica Shirvington

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination. — Sathya Sai Baba

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. — Richard K. Morgan

friends will stand by me in trouble. They will — Laura Ingalls Wilder

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us. — Ben Carson

You said I was your savior," I said, "but you won't let me save you, not truly." He shrugged in misery. "I don't know how to be saved. — Kathryn Purdie

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just as police and fire sirens reminded New Yorkers they were home, the sound of car bombs reminded me I was in Baghdad, which had become home for me. I was like a battered wife who can't leave the man abusing her. I had moved into stage four and assumed, as a matter of math, that I was going to die in Baghdad. But still I wanted to stay. — Richard Engel

I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor. — Hiroyuki Sanada

We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us. — Horst Rechelbacher