Twittys Quotes & Sayings

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said. — David Almond

Education isn't play
and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work. — Thomas A. Edison

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance. — Merle Shain

When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks. — Gerry Anderson

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ... — Samuel R. Delany

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastrophe of nature. To them, too, however, the other thought has come that man is perhaps not merely a half-rational animal but a child of the gods and destined to immortality. — Hermann Hesse

The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves. — Amy Lane

You can be humble without compromising your values. — Israelmore Ayivor

Disappointment tears the bearable film of life. — Elizabeth Bowen