Volemic Quotes & Sayings

There was currant toast squishy with butter, caramel-marshmallow squares, strawberry boats oozing custard, chocolate exclairs that exploded with cream when the cats bit into them with their little white teeth and-- a special treat for Pleasant-- a pie made from thick slices of Bramley apple, with just the right amount of tangy in the tangy-sweet. — Anne Michaels

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. — Winston Churchill

Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd, having o'er itself no further power, prompts deeds eternity can not annul. — George Gordon Byron

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself. — Agnes De Mille

What I wouldn't give for a little old smuggling job. — Katherine McIntyre

With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'. — Charles Scott Sherrington