Vandusen Gardens Quotes & Sayings

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side. — John Banville

Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King

Wagner Doctor Faustus' student and servant: "Alas, poor slave! See how poverty jests in his nakedness. I know the villain's out of service, and so hungry that I know he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though it were blood raw."
Robin a clown: "Not so, neither! I had need to have it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear, I can tell you. — Christopher Marlowe

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football. — Peter Capaldi

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. — Joseph C. Lincoln

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. — Ernest Gaines