Cracknell Quotes

#1. Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. between 1950 and 1960 more new office space was added to New York than existed in the rest of the world at the time.

Andrew Cracknell

#3. The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.

Liane Moriarty

#4. To make a perfect horseman, three things are requisite. First, to know how and when to help your horse. Secondly, how and when to correct him. And thirdly, how and when to praise him and to make much of him.

Thomas Blundeville

#5. People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Seth Godin

#6. In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

F. LaGard Smith

#7. I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

Sandra Bernhard

#8. Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

Dalai Lama

#9. I truly feel absolutely at home on the stage. It's very comfortable to me. It's very much my workplace, very much my workplace. I feel that an audience and I are happy with one another. I'm grateful for that.

Ruth Cracknell

#10. The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Carson McCullers

#11. Patriarchy is having the power to name.

Kate Zambreno

#12. I mean, it's nice to have the laws, but it's nice partly because it makes it easier to struggle for your rights-it's not that the laws give you the rights. Laws can be on the books and mean absolutely nothing

Noam Chomsky

#13. Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

#14. But now, the final feeling ... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

Ruth Cracknell

#15. How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

John Burroughs

#16. Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?"
"Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice

Ilona Andrews

#17. Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#18. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#19. Is it acting a true vocation? ... I say it is a gift ... And fame? Neither sought nor expected ... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason ... I am so very delighted that it did happen ... I would not have missed it for the world ...

Ruth Cracknell