Crofter Quotes

#1. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

Halldor Laxness

#2. When I was thirteen, I wed a crofter's daughter. Or so I thought her. I was blind with love for her, and thought she felt the same for me, but my father rubbed my face in the truth. My bride was a whore Jaime had hired to give me my first taste of manhood.

George R R Martin

#3. And then here I am back down, right beside the stone, my body rumpled, happy, crumpled as if it had just made love. Sun. Voices from above. I-330's smile.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#4. When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

Meryl Streep

#5. What child, whilst summer is happening, bothers to think that summer will end? What child when snow is on the ground stops to remember that not long ago the ground was snowless?

Max Lucado

#6. Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Mark Zuckerberg

#7. In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Manuel Puig

#8. When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

Avicii

#9. I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.

John Barrasso

#10. It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.

Hugh Hudson

#11. Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

Neil Gaiman

#12. There was nothing to imagine with a gun except something that was dead.

Paula Fox

#13. If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield

#14. I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

Sally Field

#15. When you gentlemen come to stand at the Boundary between the Settl'd and the Unpossess'd, just about to enter the Deep Woods, you will recognize the Sensation ...

Thomas Pynchon