Umphress Rd Quotes & Sayings

When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the guys who are supposedly blind and crippled, who aren't, got me after I'd collected a lot of money, took my money and threatened to break my arm if I ever came back to their 'kip,' their turf. — Saul Rubinek

I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman. — Nuala O'Faolain

writing is a sanity-saving companion for people in times of grief, loss, illness, and other accidents of fate. — William Zinsser

Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door — Edgar Allan Poe

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood. — Will Christopher Baer

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. — Jimmy Breslin

The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. — Bram Stoker

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt — M.C. Beaton

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different! — Anthony Doerr

Stephanie Plum, psycho bait. — Janet Evanovich

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

It would be impossible, therefore, to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this - the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. What — Frederic Bastiat