Trowelled Quotes & Sayings

Never travel by sea when you can go by land. — Cato The Younger

Ember had told me once that she'd known a girl who wanted to die until someone had spoken six words to her that made her decide to live instead. I'd asked what the magic words were, and she said it didn't matter; the point was that no one ever knows when something they say will cause a profound change in somebody else. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them. — Tom Sizemore

The Holy One. I have never stopped believing in him. I don't understand the idea that God wants to be worshipped one way alone, and when I feel overwhelmed by the immensity and beauty of his creation, I am glad my mother taught me to bless and praise him everywhere. My — Laurel Corona

The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development which presaged the flattening effects of globalisation; the spreading, under a cheerful banner, of a sameness that threatened to weaken and destroy all sense of place. — Alexander McCall Smith

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over. — E. M. Forster

Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles. — Robert H. Schuller

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach