Top 100 Beryl Quotes
#1. I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Beryl.
Derek Landy
#2. Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you.
Paula McLain
#3. Just put the stone in your pocket, then leave me in an empty room so I can gaze out at all the Edgleys and laugh. Or maybe I'll pretend to be a ghost and haunt Beryl - Echo-Gordon (Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire)
Derek Landy
#4. She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.
Gail Godwin
#5. I love you all, even those I don't
particularly like. That's you, Beryl.
Derek Landy
#6. The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds.
Annie Proulx
#7. When is a Beryl not a Beryl? 'When it's a Claudia,' he said.
Stephen King
#8. Miss Beryl: Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?
Sully: Not often. Now and then.
Richard Russo
#9. Cold coiled through me, lacing each breath with clouded wisps of frost. There was not so much as a candle lit within the small, single room of my cottage, and delicate crystals of alabaster and beryl rimed my meagre possessions and the barren fireplace. I did not care.
Hazel Butler
#10. I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.
Nina Bawden
#11. I must be losing patience with my fellow humans," Miss Beryl went on. "Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon.
Richard Russo
#12. Tanith: have you called the police?
fergus: they, uh, they said theyd call by this afternoon.
tanith: tell them not to bother ... im his doctor.
beryl: what kind of doctor dresses in brown leather?
tanith: the kind that looks good init
Derek Landy
#14. And if I tried to talk to him or, God forbid, ask him to take it easy on the whisky, he'd lash out. "Oh, sod off, Beryl. It's all easy for you, isn't it?
Paula McLain
#15. I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
Monica Ali
#16. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.
Don DeLillo
#17. If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.
Derek Landy
#18. It meant good-bye to London and to Churchill, whose company Harriman thoroughly enjoyed, and to Pamela, whose bed he enjoyed (the lovers' hiatus lasted almost three decades, until 1971, when Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward became the third Mrs. Harriman).
William Manchester
#20. A domesticated lion is only an unnatural lion - and whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy.
Beryl Markham
#21. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,
Beryl Bainbridge
#22. Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
Beryl Bainbridge
#23. Stranger [10w]
Discover your lover every day as you would a stranger.
Beryl Dov
#24. Over 50% of Modern Relationships [10w]
Best match for a narcissiist is a low self-esteemed enabler.
Beryl Dov
#25. Life's Tragedy
Making a living and making a life
are at odds.
Beryl Dov
#26. Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.
Beryl Markham
#27. Regret [10w]
Regret's like a microwave
cooking you from the inside out.
Beryl Dov
#28. At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat - that was the difference between them.
Beryl Bainbridge
#29. Disneyland: The happiest place on earth...
...for its Board of Directors and stockholders.
Beryl Dov
#30. Obama Talks to Auto-Worker's Union [10w]
"We shall increase auto-industry employment
by using live crash-test dummies.
Beryl Dov
#31. Peter Piper
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
why couldn't he use his kick-ass alliterative skillz
to write Spoken Word poetry?
Beryl Dov
#32. Save One Heart [20w]
If you can save one heart from breaking
without breaking yours
it is as if you have saved the world.
Beryl Dov
#33. Live Today [10w]
Don't plan for the future if you can't live today.
Beryl Dov
#34. In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
Beryl Markham
#35. Why Your Penis is a Gift
Think of the past as your left pocket,
the future as your right pocket ~
which leaves your penis as the present.
Beryl Dov
#36. A fine job of work and a fine colt. Shall I reward you or Coquette - or both?
Beryl Markham
#37. Rules
Rules,
like hearts,
were meant to be broken
Beryl Dov
#38. The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
Beryl Bainbridge
#39. Weltanschaung as Ennui [10w]
When world-view turns to world-weariness,
we see staleness in everything.
Beryl Dov
#40. Nobel Prize in Literature [10w]
Only fools and Swedes equate literary prizes with literary merit.
Beryl Dov
#41. Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
Beryl Bainbridge
#42. Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak.
Beryl Dov
#43. A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not ...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
Beryl Markham
#44. There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages
"Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
Beryl Markham
#45. New [10w] + {Couplet}
Poetry is fashion, its new arrivals
are simply just revivals.
Beryl Dov
#46. My Heart
My heart has so many scars
you could read it like braille.
Beryl Dov
#47. The Written Word
The only thing I hold dearer than myself
(and my moms, yo') ~
is the written word.
I'd give my life for that bitch,
(yo'.)
Beryl Dov
#48. Poetry as Initiation
Every poem embraces our passion to connect
its reader to snippets of knowledge
that have become life-giving to us.
Poems go beyond simple sharing to initiation,
beyond the need to express
to the urgency to edify.
Beryl Dov
#49. A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
Beryl Markham
#50. Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
Beryl Bender Birch
#51. A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget- but not himself.
Beryl Bainbridge
#52. I have lifted my plane ... for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.
Beryl Markham
#53. The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.
Beryl Bainbridge
#54. Depression is Genetic [10w]
Depression is genetic, specifically the product of another's cruel genetics.
Beryl Dov
#55. Money vs. Mouth [10w]
'Put ya' money where ya' mouth is,'
so it's grabable.
Beryl Dov
#56. [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
Beryl Markham
#57. My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.
Beryl Bender Birch
#58. The Reader [10w]
A poem cannot be greater than the mind examining it.
Beryl Dov
#59. The Economics of Truth
In the popular marketplace, truth is cheap
because its supply always exceeds its demand.
Beryl Dov
#60. The Kiss
Begin with words formed upon the lips
move to lips informed by lover's lips
pressing lips upon each others lips
inducing hips to thrust upon one's hips
while moving lips from lips to hips
and back to lips impressed by lips.
Beryl Dov
#61. How 'We' Assume the Throne [10w]
We've become royalty
when the first-person-singular leaps
into the first-person-plural.
Beryl Dov
#63. Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.
Beryl Markham
#64. Telekinetic Poker Players
You can tell telekinetic poker-players are bluffing ~
they raise you.
Beryl Dov
#65. Jane Austen vs. My Penis [20w]
"It is a truth universally that a single man
in possession of a penis must be in want of pussy.
Beryl Dov
#66. Hey, Wait a Minute!
The best way to control a people is to create
a fascist system of government
that goes through the motions of democracy.
Hey, wait a minute!
That's called America.
Beryl Dov
#67. The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.
Beryl Bainbridge
#68. Mums the Word [10w]
Chrysanthemum died to atone for our sins in the garden.
Beryl Dov
#69. How to Score a Promotion [10w]
First make yourself irreplaceable,
then tell your boss you're leaving.
Beryl Dov
#70. I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.
Beryl Bender Birch
#71. The Life Coach with Too Many Cats
My new life coach said, "Make sure you learn one new thing every day."
Before our session, I averaged learning at least two new thing every day.
Not only did her cats make my eyes itchy, that bitch made me stupid.
Beryl Dov
#72. Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
Beryl Bainbridge
#73. If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space!
Beryl Broekman
#74. Lourdes
Poetry is my Lourdes ~
a spiritual oasis where I come to heal
in the divine power of words.
Beryl Dov
#75. Between the Murmurs of My Heart
I kneel in awe at the altar of myself,
resonating in the realization
between the murmurs of my heart, that
'I
am
the
miracle
of
life.
Beryl Dov
#76. Clairol: Does she or doesn't she...
...take it up the ass.
Beryl Dov
#77. Soulmate My Ass [10w]
Aspire to marry the person
the least wrong for you.
Beryl Dov
#78. Show Up [10w]
I've waited for you all my life ~
show up already!
Beryl Dov
#79. The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.
Beryl Markham
#80. Familiar vs. Strange [10w]
The sexiest part of strangeness is its most familiar quality.
Beryl Dov
#81. Moments vs. Years
Life's too long when measured in years,
and too short when measured in moments.
Beryl Dov
#82. The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.
Beryl Markham
#83. The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness ... even if it's just for an instant.
Beryl Bender Birch
#84. Choose Your Tears
If we cry over spilled milk,
what tears will be left over for spilled blood?
Beryl Dov
#85. First Memories
Without language we cannot create distinct memories,
that's why the first year-and-a-half of my life is still a blank,
other than a lingering vague premonition I owed
someone something.
Beryl Dov
#86. I have only one simple question for Hello Poetry Members who are following other poets but deliberately choose not to follow me... [10w]
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU FOLLOWING POETS
MUCH LESS CREATIVE?
Beryl Dov
#87. Boundary vs. Horizon
Our imagination is not a boundary, it's a horizon.
It moves with us and is therefore limitless.
Beryl Dov
#88. How to Anesthetize theM asses [10w]
Build more shopping malls and get rid of the internet.
Beryl Dov
#89. Texans reckon someone's a half-wit without even making a comparison.
Beryl Dov
#90. FBI vs. CIA
When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,
he gets a watch.
When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,
he gets watched.
I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~
I know this because I have HBO.
Beryl Dov
#91. Old Timer's Disease
The celebrity
with Alzheimer's
sued himself for writing his
unauthorized autobiography.
Beryl Dov
#92. I learned the tyranny of figures before I knew the value of a pound.
Beryl Markham
#93. First Day at Harvard [10w]
Smartest kid in the room
walks into room of competitors.
Beryl Dov
#94. Humble Wishes [10w]
"God, all I simply ask is that I become perfect.
Beryl Dov
#95. Rules [10w]
There are no rules
is the hardest rule to follow.
Beryl Dov
#96. All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.
Beryl Markham
#97. Love's Kiss of Death [10w]
Love's kiss of death is taking each another for granted.
Beryl Dov
#98. Grandma's Advice to Girls [10w]
Grandma's advice to girls:
Fuck the athlete;
marry the mathlete.
Beryl Dov
#99. Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless.
Beryl Markham
#100. Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.
Beryl Bender Birch
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