Awkward Beginnings Quotes

#1. The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.

Richard Brautigan

#2. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!

Rashers Tierney

#3. For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

Margaret Atwood

#4. You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Steve Earle

#5. He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.

Anne Perry

#6. He looked at me with serious eyes, but not the kind that made me wonder what I'd done wrong. The kind that made me wonder what I'd done right.

Denise Jaden

#7. When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

Vladimir Lenin

#8. Common law is common right.

Edward Coke

#9. Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

Josiah Bartlett

#10. You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!

Stephen Richards