Checkley Wood Quotes

#1. Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

James Elkins

#2. I turned and faced the Olympians.
"We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes.

Rick Riordan

#3. Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons?

Robert Jordan

#4. Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.

Atul Gawande

#5. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

Asa Don Brown

#6. I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

Lady Sovereign

#7. I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

William Friedkin