Bideford Tide Quotes

#1. God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. For instance, if you're a black guy and you got pulled over, and you didn't know that any other black men were being pulled over, you would constantly in the back of your head be thinking, "What did I do?" rather than, "I didn't do anything, these are just the conditions I live under."

Claudia Rankine

#3. You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

Anne Rice

#4. One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.

John Scalzi

#5. He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

Les Dawson

#6. All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

Charles Kingsley

#7. When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

Rupert Sheldrake

#9. I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Daniel Defoe

#10. It is impossible says our distressed mind; try it, whispers admonishing us, the dream.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#11. I used to think the best part of me died with Les, but the best part of me is standing right here in front of me.

Colleen Hoover

#12. I'm going to be sick. I'm going to vomit that weird eggplant tapenade I had for dinner, and everyone will hear, and no one will invite me to watch the mimes escape from their invisible boxes, or whatever it is people do here in their spare time.

Stephanie Perkins

#13. If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

Chris Hardwick

#14. I was born in the hands of a woman. And I want to die in the hands of one.

M.B. Mohan