Chimney Sweeper Quotes

#1. 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

Ruth Rendell

#2. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.

Hadley Freeman

#4. A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

Lord Byron

#5. Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

Louis Mandylor

#6. I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye ... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being ... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

Jane Green

#8. St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

Brunello Cucinelli

#9. One thing that's really pulled me in to helping artists create their album is that I get to help them tell a story. It's about the way you frame that story and finding the best way to tell that story.

Emily Lazar

#10. We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

Tom Daschle

#11. If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

Roland Martin

#12. To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

Jean Alesi

#13. The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Herbert Butterfield

#14. A clenched fist can punch, but cannot embrace.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention to the MEANS, PACE AND QUALITY OF PROGRESS towards the aim; and upholding GROUP UNITY and INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS throughout.

James Scouller

#16. But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you're
sharing a reality that doesn't exist.

Chuck Klosterman

#17. If you have nothing in common with the person you are dating and his parents hate you and your friends hate him, this is not romantic; it's a bad idea.

Amy E. Spiegel

#18. I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Anne Lamott

#19. Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.

John Kundla