Backfield Boys Quotes

#1. I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Darrell Issa

#2. In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#3. I'm really tired of virtue.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. What did you want to achieve?" "Liberty, of course!" The answer was swift, but followed immediately by a deprecating smile. "Except I've learned there's no such thing." "There isn't?" "You can't have freedom and lawyers, Sharpe,

Bernard Cornwell

#5. The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.

Zhuangzi

#6. There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

Freida Pinto

#7. He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. 4 He counts the stars and calls them all by name. 5 How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!

Anonymous

#8. Let me be
like
a thing
left
in a
corner
and forgotten

Giuseppe Ungaretti

#9. I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.

Bruce Coville

#10. But you can't invent things like time,' Violet said. 'You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window waster. But you can't invent more time.

Lemony Snicket

#11. I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Jordin Sparks

#12. Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan J. Pakula