Slappable Faces Quotes & Sayings

God is with us, and His power is around us. — Charles Spurgeon

Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth. — Sarah Dunant

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ... groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises. — Graham Stuart Thomas

Oliver, we've got something to tell you," Dad says, dumping a cardboard box full of garden waste into a toad green mangler.
Unlike the doctor, when Dad says we, he means we because Mum is omnipotent.
"Who's dead?" I ask, shot-putting a bottle of Richebourg.
"No one's dead."
"You're getting a divorce?"
"Oliver."
"Mum's preggers?"
"No, we - "
"I'm adopted."
"Oliver! Please, shit up! — Joe Dunthorne

It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization I am that is prior to I am this or I am that. — Eckhart Tolle

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters. — Bryan Cranston

31 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion? — Anonymous

If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all. — Carol Loomis

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. — John Charles Polanyi

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. — Alice Hoffman

It is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles — Frank O'Hara

To laugh is to dare, because laughter dares fate and sorrow and the weight of all injustices. — Sara Douglass