Wykeham Collegiate Quotes & Sayings

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) — Joyce Carol Oates

Though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy — William Shakespeare

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do. — Jack White

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. — William Shakespeare

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre. — Tim Lambesis

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room. — Rick Steves

Chocolate cake is the bomb! — Scarlett Pomers

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon. — Alan Hovhaness

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid. — Wynton Marsalis

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. — Jarvis Cocker

The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it! — Mooji

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. — Harry A. Blackmun

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees ... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929 — John Vaillant