Simnel Quotes & Sayings

This'll keep me safe, Mother! I've the knowing of the sliding rule! I can tell the sine what to do, and the cosine likewise and work out the tangent of t'quaderatics! Come one, Mother, stop fretting and come wi' me now to t'barn. You must see 'er!' Mrs. Simnel, reluctant, was dragged by her son to the great open barn he had knitted out like the workshop back at Sheepridge, hoping against hope that her son had accidentally found himself a girl. — Terry Pratchett

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own. — Matthew Hale

Dick Simnel smiled the expansive smile of a man who really, really wants to talk about his wonderful pet project and is now keen to illuminate every bystander to the point of boredom, and in the worst cases suicide. Moist recognized the type; they were invariably useful and in themselves amiable and quite without malice of any sort, but nevertheless they were implicitly dangerous. — Terry Pratchett

There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world. — Fran Lebowitz

Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now. — James O'Barr

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient. — Robert Greene

The whole school was in shock when he died.
Just six months earlier,
another guy from school died.
Everyone went on about too much tragedy.
Want to know about tragedy?
Come to my house.
A year later, tragedy is still here.
Every damn day, it's here. — Lisa Schroeder

He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed. — Megan Shepherd

En route to such trees and get up before dawn, something they normally hate to do. — Frans De Waal

You see a person's true colors when you are no longer beneficial to their life. — Lovely Goyal

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules. — Publilius Syrus

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people. — John F. Kennedy

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. — George Foreman

When someone goes to watch my film in the theatre, they won't remember the last four articles they read about me. Instead, they will think about the last film I did. — Anushka Sharma