Beckenham Quotes

#1. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.

William Hurrell Mallock

#2. submission would be, because I'd really earned it." "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up.

Lisa Renee Jones

#3. If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Arthur Bloch

#4. Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Robert D. Putnam

#5. However, he either could growl without meaning, like a monster, or stay silent and keep his ideas to himself.

J.M.K. Walkow

#6. If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Hoban

#7. The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.

Evan Esar

#8. You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga

#9. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Greater than atomic power is the power of love. Alas, we use it so sparingly!

J.P. Vaswani

#11. All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. I am terrified of submarines.

Autumn Reeser

#13. For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

Hanif Kureishi