Eric Linklater Quotes

#1. It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

Eric Linklater

#2. Escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

#3. All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

Eric Linklater

#4. But often, it is the forbidden that is the hottest, and the depraved that is the most arousing

Alessandra Torre

#5. President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

Randy Neugebauer

#6. No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#7. For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

Eric Linklater

#8. There won't be any revolution in America ... The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Eric Linklater

#9. I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Neil Armstrong

#10. As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Marisa Berenson

#11. You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.

Jean Chatzky

#12. But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

Eric Linklater

#13. You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

John Leo

#14. That picture of me running down the beach - I'll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.

Kate Moss

#15. The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

Evelyn Waugh