Sourek Manor Quotes & Sayings

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. — Rumi

When we've been travelling around I've often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I've seen everything I've decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that. — Ben Okri

When a hideous man becomes a father
And a son is born to him
In the middle of the night
He trembles and lights a lamp
And runs to look in anguish
On that child's face
To see who he resembles. — Zhuangzi

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough. — Michelle Trachtenberg

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel. — Craig Ferguson

I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there. — Larry Ellison

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis

You have incredible potential. At your birth, you were loaded with everything you need to make an impact on the world. — Pedro Okoro

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure. — Jasper Carrott

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor. — June Goodfield

Don't ever make the mistake most New Yorkers do, of underestimating Chicago. They think it's only a postage stamp on a very large envelope, and they're the envelope. — Jeffrey Archer

Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun. — P. J. O'Rourke

Faith is nothing more - but how much this is - than a motion of the soul toward God. It is not belief. Belief has objects - Christ was resurrected, God created the earth - faith does not. Even the motion of faith is mysterious and inexplicable: I say the soul moves "toward" God, but that is only the limitation of language. It may be God who moves, the soul that opens for him. Faith is faith in the soul. — Christian Wiman

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties. — Larry Holmes

The problem is we moved to LA ... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican. — Trey Parker