Yardies Quotes & Sayings

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. — Andy Rooney

I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics. — James L. Cambias

Yesterday, when we were packing, Julius asked me,
"If you could rub Tulip out of your past life, would you do it?"
And I had to shake my head. I can't regret the times we had together. Sometimes I worry I won't have times like that again, that there will be no lit nights, no incandescent days. But I know it's not true. There can be colour in a million ways. I know I'll find it on my own. — Anne Fine

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two. — William James

Everything that had happened flipped through
my head like a photo album I wanted to burn. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility. — Brad Linaweaver

Darling Daddy,
Poor Saffy. She had a big fight in the boys toilets on Monday, did you know? A very big fight and Sarah helped and it was terrifying. Said a boy in my class who has a brother who was there.
Saffy washed her hands and said Never Ever Never Dare You Touch My Brother. (Indigo). And the plug holes were blocked with hair.
Love from Rose.
-Sarah's mother has given us soup. Soup soup soup and then it was all gone.
L.F.R. — Hilary McKay

The news and the truth are not the same thing. — Walter Lippmann

Writing can be a splendid headache. Fun when words spill forth like a raging river and a catastrophic, hair-pulling experience when they won't. — Adam Santo

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent — Amartya Sen

It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem. — Ben Aaronovitch

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents. — Kurt Vonnegut

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself. — Joseph Joubert

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm. — Heidi Reagan

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. — Al Gore