Unwrought Aluminium Quotes & Sayings

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. — Sabaa Tahir

You're a bit elderly, Abigail, I'll give you that, but I don't think you've ever been dotty in your life, and I'm certainly not finding you dear at the moment - more like diabolical."
Lucetta's lips curved ever so slightly. "I'll wear that frock just to appease you, but don't think I'm going to be happy about it." She turned and stomped out of the room.
"Don't forget the tiara I left beside the dress," Abigail called. "Or the sparkly shoes that are right on the floor, dear."
"I'm not wearing a tiara," Lucetta yelled back. Abigail grinned.
"She's such a dear, sweet girl. Possessed of such a quiet and delicate nature. — Jen Turano

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life. — Zora Neale Hurston

When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times. — Sean Bean

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin

As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it's even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others. — Marcus Buckingham

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham

Cole turned his bride to hug her from behind, nuzzling her neck.
-I'll have you in my bed next. I'm going to make love to you so thoroughly that, tomorrow? You'll walk like John Wayne. — Debra Anastasia

Death doesn't end our devotion. It only makes it stronger. — James W. Bodden

Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly," I said. "So why won't the radio play?"
"I don't know," he said. "Try connecting them here."
He was pointing toward a socket on the radio labeled "AC," and when I shoved the wires inside, the radio came to life. We shouted with excitement. As I pedaled the bicycle, I could hear the great Billy Kaunda playing his happy music on Radio Two, and that made Geoffrey start to dance.
"Keep pedaling," he said. "That's it, just keep pedaling."
"Hey, I want to dance, too."
"You'll have to wait your turn."
Without realizing it, I'd just discovered the difference between alternating and direct current. Of course, I wouldn't know what this meant until much later.
After a few minutes of pedaling this upside-down bike by hand, my arm grew tired and the radio slowly died. So I began thinking, "What can do the pedaling for us so Geoffrey and I can dance? — William Kamkwamba

This one went unusually smoothly. When I finished it, I remarked to a friend that I felt like an engineer who had designed a machine and then sat back and realized it did everything I'd set out to do.

Which made him say, quite emphatically, "No engineer has ever felt this. — Robert J. Bennett

...for those of us who never do these things at all, there can be a great sense of shame that washes over us for not being a good enough Christian. — Emily P. Freeman

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. — Arlen Specter

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. — Angela Carter