Shenstone Primary Quotes & Sayings

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper. — Don Rickles

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. — James Cash Penney

The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents. — Dallin H. Oaks

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason. — Warren Buffett

Cruelty of any kind is unforgivable . That's why there is no point at all in being creek in half-measure. — Michael Dobbs

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst. — Francis Bacon

R wrote Delahaye about all that had happened to him and about what he, R, wanted:
My friend,
You're eating white flour and mud in your pigsty. I don't miss Charleville. I don't miss being a bored pig where the sun dries up all brains but sloth. Your brains or feelings're being dried up: dead pig Delahaye.
Emotions are the movers of this world.
Me: I'm thirsty. What I'm thirsty for - whom I'm thirsty for - I can't get so I drink poisons. I've got to free myself. From what? Pain? Oh - for more poisons. Maybe more poisons'll come and I'll go so far, I'll emerge. Something is trying to emerge from this mess.
I don't know how. — Kathy Acker

To a dream, perhaps a nightmare was simply an unpleasant acquaintance rather than anything uncanny. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in. — Jeremy Corbyn

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights. — Matthew Pearl

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art. — Seth

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. — Peter Lawford

I think we are clinging with ever-increasing desperation to our status as children. In the hospital you see other children - children of fifty, of sixty, of seventy - clinging to their parents of eighty, ninety, one hundred. Is all this clinging love? Or is it just the need to be reassured of your own immunity from the contagion of the Moloch ha-moves - the dread Angel of Death? Because we all secretly believe in our own immortality. Since we cannot imagine the loss of individual consciousness, we cannot possibly imagine death. — Erica Jong