Cockbill Quotes

#1. He could hear his granny speaking. "No one's too poor to buy soap." Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.

Vicky McClure

#3. Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Steven Moffat

#4. I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

Susan Cain

#5. I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I ... wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Michael Leunig

#7. As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Daniel Defoe

#8. Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.

Will Advise

#9. What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life
especially one's politics?

Shane Claiborne

#10. Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Samuel Johnson

#11. We're friends here, I tell you - absolutely palsy-walsy. We'll break bread and speak of many things - oxen and oil-tankers and whether or not Frank Sinatra really was a better crooner than Der Bingle.

Stephen King

#12. Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive.

Louise Penny