Cold Comfort Farm Quotes

#1. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#2. Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

Stella Gibbons

#3. There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

#4. My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

Meg Cabot

#5. It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election.

David Sedaris

#6. You're asking," I said. "I've always been the one to end

Cheryl Strayed

#7. Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

Michelle Sagara West

#8. Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions

Stella Gibbons

#9. I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

Barack Obama

#10. ...no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another.

-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth

Joan H. Timmerman

#11. After you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

Herbert H. Lehman

#12. But I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly ... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

Bret Easton Ellis

#13. Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#14. Not to mention Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless, who are all under-producing and their milk is sour and they won't go anywhere near the yard.

Charles Stross