Concertina Quotes

#1. These past couple of weeks, I'd scaled Kelly's massive wall and peeked at what lay beyond. But I'd made myself too comfortable, and he'd tossed me back out, stacked his defenses thicker and taller and coiled it with a halo of concertina wire.

Cara McKenna

#2. When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more.

Jane Birkin

#3. Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

Stephen Leacock

#4. Sometimes the distance of years - all that was contained within its concertina folds - was a physical ache.

Kate Morton

#5. Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing!
Let the piano's martial blast
Rouse the Echoes of the Past

W.S. Gilbert

#6. [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

Paul Murray Kendall

#7. Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.

Peter Brooks

#8. As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today's trials as well as for all tomorrow's challenges.

Elizabeth George

#9. No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

Mischa Temaul

#10. There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Robin S. Sharma

#11. It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Alicia Keys

#12. Few see beyond the outward appearance
And recognize the true worth of a human soul.
When they do, miracles occur.

Thomas S. Monson

#13. Jeep is America's only real sports car.

Enzo Ferrari

#14. The desire to perform impedes conversation.

Mason Cooley

#15. The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Criss Jami

#17. He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he's right here.

Drew Barrymore

#18. People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

Anurag Kashyap