Bowes Quotes

#1. The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art
when one is vexed, as I fear I often am, one should recall that the Bowes Lyons are the laziest family in the world. Against this reflection it becomes remarkable that she accomplishes so much.

Arthur Penn

#2. Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

Tony Bennett

#3. You put something behind you, Nome, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going." -Mason Carson (Bowes)

Nora Roberts

#4. Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

Richard Bowes

#5. ..."Unforgiveness," said Pastor Allen, "is the cup of poison that we pour for another, and then drink ourselves."
'You are becoming a very bitter and twisted person, Hana Du Rose,' she chided herself as they sang the final hymn.

From the New Du Rose Matriarch

K.T. Bowes

#6. Parenting is a bit like baking a cake. You put all the right stuff in and do exactly what your mother wrote in the recipe but when you look away for just a second, someone bounces in front of the oven and you end up with something unexpected.

K.T. Bowes

#7. Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

#8. From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

Isabel Allende

#9. Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

#10. Nothing is as real as dreams.

Richard Bowes

#11. Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour.

T.J. Bowes

#12. None of this is your fault. Nothing that you have told me has changed the way I feel about you. I love you, and I will love your baby because it is a part of you.

Leslie Bowes

#13. Do we believe, or are we just playing Dressing Up?

T.J. Bowes

#14. My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

Richard Bowes

#15. Jones is dead," I promised. "He just doesn't know it yet. But we are patient, we can wait until the time is ripe.

Patricia Briggs

#16. Apologies for the White Privilege. I can't help it.

T.J. Bowes

#17. Everything seems urgent until I sit down to write. Suddenly nothing else matters. It's only when I stop, that it's a problem that I'm not dressed, there is no dinner and the house looks like it's been burgled.

K.T. Bowes

#18. Why do we have to behave like idiots to prove we're not a stereotype? Why do we have to rebel against ourselves? Enjoy the freedom to be shy

T.J. Bowes

#19. Real love is not about being powerful, it's about rendering yourself powerless.

K.T. Bowes

#20. The crickets, too, respect the silence. Their calls are like careful stitches in its fabric, almost too small to be seen.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.

Arap Yegon Chitabkoret

#22. Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

Jewel

#23. Biscuits, biscuits: wherefore art thou biscuits? Hath mine beloved hidden thou once more from mine eyes? Alas, mine coffee cries out. Lo!

T.J. Bowes

#24. Nothing is sadder than an old whore.

Richard Bowes

#25. The forest would be very quiet if only a few birds sang.

Anonymous

#26. I ask myself, "Why am I so serious?" Everyone else asks me, "Why are you such a joker?

T.J. Bowes

#27. Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

Calvin Trillin

#28. The end has to come from within.

Richard Bowes