Banfield Tales Quotes

#1. Silence took over for a full hour. They drove on. He didn't care anymore. They saw the sign for the next service station twenty minutes after they joined the M5 southbound. He didn't know what they were doing, where they were going."

From 'The Journey' (Banfield Tales)

Michael Braccia

#2. In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Julia Child

#3. Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Joseph Addison

#4. I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

Jane Austen

#6. Historically inaccurate.' Adrian gestured at me with his other hand, the one not on my shoulder. Who the hell looks at you and says 'historically inaccurate'?

Richelle Mead

#7. Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#8. If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

Paul Beatty

#9. To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Geraldine Brooks