Unclipped Airedale Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. — George R R Martin

Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff - gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold. — Edward John Trelawny

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. — Joni Mitchell

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail. — Peter Diamandis

They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman. — Edwidge Danticat

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week. — Terry Pratchett

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent — Jimmy Carter

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. — Thornton Wilder

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do. — Marilu Henner