Van Kam Freightways Quotes & Sayings

The old marchioness had him tracing down bed hangings and carpets for her. Send that. Be here. To her, all the world was a menial. If she wanted a lobster or a sturgeon, she ordered it up, and if she wanted good taste she ordered it in the same way. The marchioness would run her hand over Florentine silks, making little squeaks of pleasure. "You bought it, Master Cromwell," she would say. "And very beautiful it is. Your next task is to work out how we pay for it. — Hilary Mantel

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care. — Suki Waterhouse

cherish what you have, for in an instant it can be gone. And when it's gone, let the memory not be a weight that drags you down, but a bright light leading you forward. — Juliet Marillier

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes. — Francois Rabelais

It's bad luck to bring anything for the baby into the house before it's born. I thought everyone knew that? — Donna Douglas

Bug, meanwhile, had learned at Marshtown that might made right, and he got older and paler, his head downcast like a nodding flower that expects itself to be cut at any moment. — William T. Vollmann

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. — Stephen King

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere? — Salman Rushdie

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact. — Martyn

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. — Mason Cooley