Truckle Beds Quotes & Sayings

The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw
entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its head. It was busy about the truckle-beds, but not for long. The sound of cries - faint, as if coming out of a vast distance - but, even so, infinitely appalling, reached the ear. ("The Haunted Doll's House") — M.R. James

I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy. — Darin Strauss

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. — Satchel Paige

The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty. — John Stuart Mill

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably. — Sienna Guillory

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things ... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst ... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here. — Angelina Jolie

A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe. — Peter Cave