Winkworths Quotes & Sayings

Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest. — George Packer

We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we? — William Golding

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. — Simon Callow

Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the skin of a void, and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit. — David Foster Wallace

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you. — Sharon Salzberg

Babies are frightening
raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body. — Jeanette Winterson

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed. — Clint Eastwood

To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing; the things you refuse to do; the things you fail to do; the things you say, as well as the things you don't say. — Ronee Blakley

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot. — Paulo Coelho