Goodings Auction Quotes

#1. All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

Sathya Sai Baba

#2. The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.

Stephen Fry

#3. Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

Ron Conway

#4. The same amazing blush he had seen once

Jack London

#5. The trees' bare bony fingers
point crookedly
towards Heaven or Hell
or worse than that, towards nowhere.

Stephanie Hemphill

#6. How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small.

Marty Rubin

#7. The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.

Francis Of Assisi

#8. The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Nigel Kennedy

#9. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.

Herman Wouk

#10. There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#11. (As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)

John Irving

#12. I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.

George Herbert

#14. Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare