Drakes Quotes

#1. All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
Ducks' tails, drakes' tails,
Yellow feet a-quiver,
Yellow bills all out of sight
Busy in the river!

Kenneth Grahame

#2. The skies were bright cerulean, teeming with ferocious winds, spilling mallards and fat wood drakes from the clouds.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. You look like you belong in a bad comic book," I told him cheerfully.
"What did the Drakes do that's got you all pissy?"
"Pissy? Did you just call me pissy?

Alyxandra Harvey

#4. I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

David Sylvian

#5. Lay hand upon me again, sir, and I'll feed your jewels to the fucking drakes.

Jay Kristoff

#6. A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

E.E. Knight

#7. Have the courage and strength to be yourself.
Because there is no other choice.
Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

Yoko Ono

#8. Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

Tahir Shah

#9. Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/

Muhammed Bhikha

#10. Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos

Anita Paddock

#11. Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

Calvin Trillin

#12. I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing ... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Lou Adler

#13. I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

Zora Neale Hurston

#14. I can do this, Logan," she said confidently. "Kala trained me for this."
"What if something goes wrong? I can't exactly wave a magic wand over you. I'm not Harry Potter."
"Who?"
"Never mind.

Alyxandra Harvey

#15. I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

Dan Mangan

#16. We live in a time of unprecedented abundance.

David Wolfe

#17. I auditioned for the role of Jamie Mitchell in 'EastEnders,' and it was between me and Jack Ryder, and he got it.

Russell Tovey