Trowelling Quotes & Sayings

Kinkade sketched the occasional nude woman, and was generous about passing the sketches around to the men and cheerful about accepting criticisms and suggestions, which he seldom incorporated, as he had his own vision. He signed them O.McCaucus-Bigg
A new soldier was always puzzled by this, given that this wasn't Kinkade's name.
"O.McCaucus-Bigg?"
"Braggart, are you?" Kinkade would roar. "Not as big as mine,laddie!"
A good joke, suitable for thirteen-year-old boys and bored sergeants and subalterns. — Julie Anne Long

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it. — Will Rogers

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. — Walter Russell Mead

Like a flower, bloom with all your love and power. — Debasish Mridha

Physical wounds could heal, but verbal wounds took on a life of their own. They slithered like serpents into the subconscious mind, and made people do the one thing that could be dangerous to their sanity. Doubt. — Kristi Lambert

You cannot please God without offending the unholy devil . — Osunsakin Adewale

Streams and mountains never stay the same. — Gary Snyder

I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets. — David Wojnarowicz

I get really frustrated if people don't smile. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. — Susanna Clarke

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside. — Stacy London