Westaby Hall Quotes & Sayings

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do you think that I like that part of me? That I enjoy doing the dirty work that being in the club requires? I fucking don't. But I do it for a reason. And six years ago, when I fell in love with you, my reason became you.
~J to Madison — Nina Levine

...the danger of developing a policy of rush, of being gradually more and more obsessed by what one has to do next. In this way one may come to exist as in a prison, and one's life may cease to be one's own. One may take the dog out for a walk at eight o'clock, and meditate the whole time on the fact that one must begin to read at a quarter to nine, and that one must not be late.
And the occasional deliberate breaking of one's programme will not help to mend matters. The evil springs not from persisting without elasticity in what one has attempted, but from originally attempting too much, from filling one's programme till it runs over. The only cure is to reconstitute the programme, and to attempt less. — Arnold Bennett

When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports. — Dietrich Mateschitz

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved. — Melody Beattie

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. — Morrissey

Olivia. Your marriage wont last. Tell Noah the truth; be fair. when you do, come find me, and ill give you that baby. — Tarryn Fisher

Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race. — Anthony Marais

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. — Enoch Powell

You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another one, another opportunity to grow, to shed your skin, to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, to break out of your cocoon like a perfect new butterfly. — Shauna Niequist

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education. — Prince Philip

Libraries can take the place of God. — Umberto Eco