Birdless Island Quotes

#1. The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.

Paul O'Grady

#2. Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

Bill Bixby

#3. Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others?

David Bezmozgis

#4. The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

Richard Paul Evans

#5. It is impossible to be angry for very long with a man who wears a wig.

Auberon Waugh

#6. Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#7. The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

Chris Robinson

#8. I keep the gun in a hollowed out copy of the Koran. And there the big book was, tossed on the bed, open and gunless. Nothing else disturbed. I mean, they actually checked my Koran to see if there was a gun inside. I knew I was dealing with a sick son of a bitch.

David Wong

#9. The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

William James

#10. The southerner talks music.

Mark Twain

#11. I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.

Roger Ebert

#12. It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: To imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale - a day-dream.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. What has motivated some people to leave Churches of Christ? . . . those of us who stayed. . . need to . . . do a better job of presenting ideas and practices that we believe are non-negotiable.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#14. A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

Confucius

#15. Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.

Stephen King