Spaced Tyres Quotes & Sayings

The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it. — Tod Wodicka

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy. — Swami Vivekananda

It's not your fault. Don't think that. It's just fate. — Katherine Mansfield

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else. — Dolly Parton

GERRY
I would step on your face!
HACKENSACKER
That's quite all right, I rather enjoyed it.
GERRY
Twice!
HACKENSACKER
You made quite an impression. — Preston Sturges

I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping! — Beeban Kidron

It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own. — Chamique Holdsclaw

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. — Charles Dickens

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores. — Stephen D. Krashen

Expectations are emotional signposts that stunt your growth. — Balroop Singh

One of the popular fallacies in connection with commerce is that in modern days a money-saving device has been introduced called credit and that, before this device was known, all purchases were paid for in cash, in other words in coins. A careful investigation shows that the precise reverse is true. In olden days coins played a far smaller part in commerce than they do to-day. Indeed so small was the quantity of coins, that they did not even suffice for the needs of the [Medieval English] Royal household and estates which regularly used tokens of various kinds for the purpose of making small payments. So unimportant indeed was the coinage that sometimes Kings did not hesitate to call it all in for re-minting and re-issue and still commerce went on just the same. — David Graeber