Daftie Quotes

#1. Iain?"
"Mmm?"
"If the bairn is a lass, I'd like to name her after our mothers - Mara Elesaid."
"'Tis a bonnie name. And if 'tis a laddie?"
"Then we shall name him after his father."
"Och, well, 'tis a grand idea. And what name would that be?"
"You daftie!

Pamela Clare

#2. It would take a real daftie to forget that, Sassenach," he said. "I may be lacking practice, but I havena lost all my faculties yet.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

Mary Quant

#4. In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.

Larry McMurtry

#5. In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

John Archibald Wheeler

#6. We forget how truly fragile we are.
Skin. We do so much to it. Burn it. Tattoo it. Rub chemical into its surface. Sometimes we scrape it, pierce it, poke holes through its softness.
Skin holds us together. IT keeps the blood inside. Without it, we die.

Jeyn Roberts

#7. Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.

Honore De Balzac

#9. First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Renate Linnenkoper

#10. I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Health is really important to me and my family. It's something that we value and that I strive for on a daily basis. MedImmune, the makers of Flumist Quadrivalent, knew about that and knew how important health is for me, so it was a no brainer for me to collaborate with them.

Tia Mowry

#12. If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.

Graham Nelson

#13. I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

Maeve Binchy

#14. The longer you look the more you see," said the twins at the same time, "the more you see, the less you are.

J.A. Redmerski