Todger Urban Quotes & Sayings

It was nearly winter. I had just seen a friend die, and was again beginning to take pleasure in my own existence. This friend, who thought of himself as the "first man to experience pain", had nevertheless tried up to the last moment to wish death away. I was thankful for all things and decreed: Enjoy yourself, take advantage of your days of good health. — Peter Handke

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than is good for them. In a country where there is so astonishingly much of everything, it is easy to look on it as a kind of inexhaustible resource. — Bill Bryson

Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. — Henry A. Kissinger

I'm feeling optimistic about rural Pakistan. Farmers are making good money. — Jacqueline Novogratz

It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose. — Kate Morton

I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool. — Pauly Shore

Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men. — MyAnna Buring

Books are the heart of the world...
This is my quote
to the Universe ~ Robyn — Me

He's as quick as a hiccup. — Darrell Royal

I'd much rather resign than be pushed. — Ian Blair

Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy. — Julian Barnes