Simoneauds Grocery Quotes & Sayings

Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'
The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open.
'Ay,' she broke in; 'and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's a many things to see, when one's still but eight-and-twenty.' She swayed her head slowly from side to side. 'A many things to see and sorrow for.' ("The Red Room") — H.G.Wells

You're going to stay here. You're going to get strong. And then, when your mind is as empty as your glass, you'll know what to do. — Kaya McLaren

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. — Thomas Sowell

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too. — Jill Scott

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him. — Patrick Yee

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked. — Susan Meissner

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best. — Rik Mayall

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log. — Henry David Thoreau

I once mentioned in a school report, how a young man in one of our English training colleges having to paraphrase the passage in Macbeth beginning,

Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased?

turned this line into, "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?" And I remarked what a curious state of things it would be, if every pupil of our national schools knew, let us say, that the moon is two thousand one hundred and sixty miles in diameter, and thought at the same time that a good paraphrase for

Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased?

was, "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?" If one is driven to choose, I think I would rather have a young person ignorant about the moon's diameter, but aware that "Can you not wait upon the lunatic?" is bad, than a young person whose education had been such as to manage things the other way — Matthew Arnold

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me. — Keahu Kahuanui

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain. — Lucretius

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people — Joely Fisher

How long should two people wait for sex? Until there is no other option when looking at one another. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music. — Nick Jonas