Dyfnaint Quotes

#1. The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

Jean Wilson

#3. In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt principles which represent a total reaction against them.

Francis Stuart Campbell

#4. For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.

Julie Murphy

#5. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

Steve Bartlett

#7. People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

Philip Pullman

#8. Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

#9. To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Jodi Picoult

#10. I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

David Dobkin

#11. I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Christian McBride

#12. When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

Amy Chua

#13. My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

Jennifer Saunders

#14. The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

John D. Voelker

#15. Death knows his way to us and he'll take it no matter what we do or we don't, but it's life that we should pave the roads that take us there.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#16. By the time a fool learns how to hold a spear, the lion has eaten him.

Matshona Dhliwayo