Sidmouth Herald Quotes & Sayings

A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress. — R.P. Falconer

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper, to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again after two years of darkness, so that you may be ready to share with me a bit of the mood
it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation
which these books arouse in a genuine collector. — Walter Benjamin

I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right? — Carrie Jones

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. — E. M. Forster

Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional! — Lev Grossman

Ladies didn't wake up on the floor, covered in cat. — Kathleen Tessaro

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off. — Nicole Holofcener

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. — George Meredith

Much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning. — Isabel Briggs Myers

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit. — Kathleen Dowling Singh

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ... — Alexandra Ripley

If the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life. — Emma Goldman