Chesterfield Sofa Quotes

#1. Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

Douglas Adams

#2. Without argument the species would parish.

Gerry Spence

#3. There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Jessica Khoury

#4. All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Herman Melville

#5. Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place

Suanne Laqueur

#6. There's a woman in the road. We didn't hit her, did we? Mia asked, breathless.

Andrea Heltsley

#7. My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.

Adam Rayner

#8. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Robert Fulghum

#9. Have you been drinking this morning? How did you miss me? I swear I've fought old women with better reflexes. (Takeshi)
The fact you fight old women tells me just how rusty you've become. What? Your ego needed the boost and they were the only ones you could find you could beat? (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#11. What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#12. You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. If I seemed strange, and conscious of myself, what was that to her? We were all strange, there.

Sarah Waters

#14. Today I shall give myself in sacrifice and work; for tomorrow I will have nothing to give and there will be none to receive.

Og Mandino

#15. You don't become a better parent or employee by not enjoying your life.

Laura Vanderkam