Twiddle Band Quotes & Sayings

Rankin put down his glass and stared at him coldly. "I beg your pardon?" he said. "I gather this is some more of your officious - "
Laurence paid no attention, but seized the back of his chair and heaved. Rankin fell forward, scrabbling to catch himself on the floor. Laurence took him by the scruff of his coat and dragged him up to his feet, ignoring his gasp of pain.
"Laurence, what in God's name - " Lenton said in astonishment, rising to his feet.
"Levitas is dying; Captain Rankin wishes to make his farewells," Laurence said, looking Lenton squarely in the eye and holding Rankin up by the collar and the arm. "He begs to be excused."
The other captains stared, half out of their chairs. Lenton looked at Rankin, then very deliberately sat back down. "Very good," he said, and reached for the bottle; the other captains slowly sank back down as well. — Naomi Novik

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking. — Benjamin Franklin

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? — Billy Corgan

Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach. — Marcus O'Sullivan

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble. — Studs Terkel

Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let's imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress. — Francine Prose

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film. — Sally Field

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed. — George Bernard Shaw

Winning was the process, not the destination. — Anonymous

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Under the assumption that it would attract less attention than a BIC language, the conspirators conducted telephone conversations in English--broken English, to be exact, with one tense, no articles, and two pronunciations, both wrong(129). — Vladimir Nabokov

There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat — Larry Nelson

How can the brain of an organism distinguish what has happened before from what has happened after? — Marco Bonafede

You talk like Jean. She says that we shouldn't make plans
and then pray for God to bless those plans, but rather ask Him
what His will is and what we need to do to help carry it out. — Donald James Parker