Bodmin Road Quotes

#1. Cyril, church warden and lead tenor in the choir, lives with mother, banned from unsupervised contact with schoolchildren; Harold, drunk dentist, early retirement, pretty thatched cottage off the Bodmin road, one son in rehab, wife in the bin.

John Le Carre

#2. At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

Philipp Meyer

#3. Sure enough, the water heated up. That's not really a surprise, but it's nice to see thermodynamics being well behaved.

Andy Weir

#4. I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Richard Peck

#5. People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and ... I'm not really.

Chris Lilley

#6. Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#7. You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.

Schoolboy Q

#8. I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

Ann Dowd

#9. You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

Larry King

#10. I ripped my hand away from his grasp, "By the way, you've got a lovely shade of slut on the edge of your lips.

Hasti Williams

#11. All peoples, clap your hands. Cry to God with shouts of joy! Ps 47 (46):2

Anonymous

#12. Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Jeff Bridges

#13. I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

John Lennon

#14. The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Moore

#15. There's too many interesting women I have ... not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

Dustin Hoffman

#16. Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.

Roberto Goizueta