Glasshouse Works Quotes

#1. I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

Marianne Moore

#3. Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#4. As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

George Meyer

#5. I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid.

Christopher Fowler

#6. The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

Adam Smith

#7. One can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.

Saki

#8. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

Gaston Leroux

#9. I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

George W. Bush