Accessorised Quotes

#1. After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

Jenny Eclair

#2. They had run out of words.... Then he and the Lamp were gone.... Ruse swallowed hard and then began counting bones again in the dark. Then when he reached the right elbow he stopped, and started counting suspects.

Ruth Downie

#3. Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Hyman G. Rickover

#4. I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

Camilo Villegas

#5. People say it's a movie about boxing, but ... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

Morgan Freeman

#6. Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.

Eric Weiner

#7. We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

Brandon Mull

#8. I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

#9. Flowers say you're sorry.
A date says you've learnt your lesson.
A diamond says both the above.
All three and you're making her suspicious.

Saleem Sharma

#10. Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.

Douglas Wilson

#11. Captain Leonard introduced me briefly to Mr. Overholt, the

Diana Gabaldon

#12. Why did you choose to stay here?" ( ... )
"I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

Paolo Giordano