The Crimson Petal And The White Quotes & Sayings

In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer. — Dave Barry

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective. — Guy Lafleur

Pictures could not be accessories to the story
evidence
they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame. — Tatjana Soli

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner. — Paul Kantner

Angela had never really got on with modern poetry. Even stuff like Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist and the other book. He seemed such a lovely man and she really did try, but it sounded like prose you had to read very slowly. Old stuff she understood. Rum-ti-tum. Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ... Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack ... Something going all the way back. Memorable words, so you could hand it down the generations. But free verse made her think of free knitting or free juggling. This, for example. She extracted a book at random. Spiders by Stanimir Stoilov, translated by Luke Kennard. She flipped through the pages ... the hatcheries of the moon ... the earth in my father's mouth. — Mark Haddon

I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels. — Sydney Wayser

We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress — Michel Faber

Simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. They demanded a culprit-- — Jim Murphy

'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on. — Michel Faber

Getting over things is a myth. Time buries things, it doesn't erase them. They can always be dug up later. — Sean Develin

When you look at the past without God's eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn't linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember. — Shannon L. Alder

I built this to find you. — Katherine Losse

I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen. — Gordon Brown

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. — Helen Oyeyemi

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing. — Warren G

sometimes you have to dismantle
your life to find your passion. — Jennifer Pierre