Bill Sykes Quotes

#1. If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

George Orwell

#2. Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

Steven Price

#3. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Charles J. Sykes

#4. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Charles J. Sykes

#5. But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

William Wordsworth

#6. If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

Peter Benchley

#7. A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#9. Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

Lee Westwood

#10. Realm swayed and put his hand over his heart, watching after her. A sharp pain from knowing that you want something you don't deserve. That you can never have again.

Suzanne Young

#11. The men of Spain held ground for a little while, but then their hearts broke under their fine red coats, and they ran away to hide in the jungle.

John Steinbeck