Unwatered Turf Quotes & Sayings

I've had stupid teachers, lazy teachers, boring teachers, teachers who were teachers because their parents were and they hadn't the imagination to think of anything else, teachers who were teachers because of cowardice, because of fear, because of the holidays, because of the pensions, because they were never called to account, never had to actually be any good, ones who could not survive in any other profession, who were not aware they had trod on butterflies. But none of those compared to Mr Maurice Crossan. He was the one who first stamped on my brother's soul. He was dark, as they say here. For those who want more of him visit the dark character of Orlick Dolge in Great Expectations and cross that with a ginger-headed weasel. — Niall Williams

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe. — Gordon Cooper

Photographs capture only the moments; but since every moment is very important in human life, every photo is also very important! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth. — James D'arcy

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. — Northrop Frye

This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength. — Bret Easton Ellis

When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go! — Jeremy Spencer

I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations. — Alexander Hamilton

We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death. — Carlos Fuentes

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. — Desiderius Erasmus