Cressbrook Quotes

#1. Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally.

Bill Bryson

#2. As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Gore Vidal

#3. A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

Richard Holbrooke

#4. My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#5. he is old enough now to know happiness for what it is: brief and fleeting, not a state to strive for, to seek to live in, but to catch when it comes, and to hold on to for as long as you can.

Laura Barnett

#6. For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

William Butler Yeats

#7. It takes a long time to get a film made.

Grant Heslov

#8. Life lives only in success.

Bayard Taylor

#9. They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.

Jane Austen