Cresswell Quotes

#1. Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

Nick Harkaway

#2. The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Nicholas Cresswell

#3. One fact was slowly taking shape: I was in jeopardy of admiring Mr. Cresswell against my better judgment.

Kerri Maniscalco

#4. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

Charles Dickens

#5. I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

Helen Cresswell

#6. A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

Helen Cresswell

#7. I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. Dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Jasmine Cresswell

#9. I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

Jasmine Cresswell

#10. I got born in the wrong family ...

Helen Cresswell

#11. Our ship might come in, but the pier will break.

Megan Linski

#12. The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made sense of those childhood experiences.

Daniel J. Siegel

#13. I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard.

Kevin Hart

#14. Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.

Helen Cresswell

#15. Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Jasmine Cresswell

#16. Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

Helen Cresswell

#17. The best way to show true gratitude for all our blessings is to be genuinely happy.

Michael Josephson

#18. The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

Helen Cresswell

#19. There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Helen Cresswell

#20. Satan has his sights on the United States of America!

Rick Santorum