Seckington Quotes & Sayings

And Oskar was kneeling at the left side-altar, trying to teach the boy Jesus how to drum, but the rascal wouldn't drum, offered no miracle. Oskar had sworn back then and swore again outside the locked church door: I'll teach him to drum yet. Sooner or later. — Gunter Grass

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me. — Lauren DeStefano

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. — Jules Renard

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible. — Gustave Le Bon

This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Many make the household but only one the home. — James Russell Lowell

All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years and go down into eternity with all that is ours our thoughts like small lost rafts float on awhile upon Oblivion's sea. They will not carry much over those tides, our names and a phrase or two and little else. — Lord Dunsany

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity. — Pema Chodron

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song. — Dan Hill

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn. — James Cook

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith. — Stephen Fry

She felt oddly safe with him, though not safe from him. — Linda Howard

Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost. — Monique Roffey