Timbrook Cumberland Quotes & Sayings

He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars. — Lily King

Behind him there's still the mirror ... a bit of infinity, which in its disinterest still holds their reflections safely in it. — Laura Kasischke

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead. — George Mikes

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Kind of boring, by some standards, but happy in a way you appreciate only when you understand the consequences of not being boring. — J.D. Vance

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. — Edward Conlon

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. — Bill Condon

What a lark! What a plunge! — Virginia Woolf

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it! — Jamie Oliver

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time. — Gifford Pinchot

Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species. — Peadar O'Guilin

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference. — Nelson Mandela

A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he achieved it
It was clay.
Now this is the strange part:
When the man went to the earth
And looked again,
Lo, there was the ball of gold.
Now this is the strange part:
It was a ball of gold.
Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold. — Stephen Crane

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character. — Stephen Rea

I was down in Tampa and it just wasn't a good setup for me, all things considered. But it also gave me the opportunity to get out of there and kind of start over. The Giants, fortunately for me, gave me the opportunity, another shot. I'm just trying to make the most of it. — Pat Burrell