Victoria Wood Famous Quotes & Sayings

Up to the counter in her white kitten heels. I haven't seen you in a month of Sundays. I always try to get — Sarah Addison Allen

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing. — Joe Abercrombie

But I can tell you what Libby's eyes look like.

They are like lying in the grass under the sky on a summer day. You're blinded by the sun, but you can feel the ground beneath you, so as much as you think you could go flying off, you know you won't. You're warmed from the inside and from the outside, and you can still feel that warmth on your skin when you walk away. — Jennifer Niven

Man is an eternal sophomore. — Wallace Stevens

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. — Idries Shah

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions. — Mallory Ortberg

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life. — Martin Henderson

I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance. — Sue Tompkins

I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad. — Soundarya

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! — Rajneesh

People readily believe what they want to believe. — Julius Caesar

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell. — Michael Moorcock

Perhaps this was what love was like after all- not the lurch of going over a humpback bridge, and not the incandescence of fireworks, just the quiet understanding that one should take a kind hand when it was offered, before all light was gone from the sky. — Chris Cleave

Sensible use of mock objects can make tests simpler and clearer. But, of course, you can have too much of a good thing. Tests that are encumbered by complex use of many mock objects can become very tricky to reason about, and hard to maintain. Mock mania is another common smell of bad test code, and may highlight that the structure of the SUT is not correct. — Anonymous

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore