Frisians Quotes

#1. Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians.

Fulcher Of Chartres

#2. He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. Yes, exactly. I heard he's a sort of savage - lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed." "I think he's brilliant," said Harry coldly.

J.K. Rowling

#4. He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

Elizabeth Goudge

#5. I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

Stockwell Day

#6. But Lautner makes me feel beautiful. It's not lust, it's more. I recognize it. It's the way I look at a piece of art and see something nobody else does.

Jewel E. Ann

#7. I'm friends with James Cameron. We've spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.

Sylvia Earle

#8. Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Karen Armstrong

#9. Without work men are utterly undone.

Nevil Shute

#10. For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Samuel Johnson

#11. I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

Lennie James

#12. The older I get
the quicker Christmas comes,
but if I had to give up the heavenly
taste of Guinness dark, I couldn't
live another goddamn day. Darling,
you can chisel that into my headstone.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#13. The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

Edward T. Hall

#14. But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

John Milton

#15. Whether he is better or worse off there where he awoke after his death, disappointed, or found there what he expected we shall all soon learn.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Cucurbits such as melons, squash, cucumbers, and pumpkins are largely dependent upon bees (Hymenoptera) for cross-pollination, and commercial production is difficult and uncertain when suitable pollinators are absent.

Gene Kritsky

#17. Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Sigourney Weaver