
Top 18 Guernsey Quotes
#1. Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.
Simon Mawer
#2. I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, my probable tomb.
Victor Hugo
#3. I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#4. When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.
Roy Harper
#5. Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.
Donna Lynn Hope
#6. Don't allow people who say it cannot be done interrupt you while you are doing it.
Carlos Wallace
#7. The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color
oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples ...
Anna Godbersen
#8. An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
Mario Benedetti
#9. You see, you just don't know
I'm here to give you my heart
And you want some fashion show
Jim Carroll
#10. Why any self-respecting fairy godmother would pass them over for an inane twit who relied on animals to do her housecleaning was beyond her.
Marie Hall
#11. Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.
Margaret George
#12. Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
Kenneth Clarke
#13. There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
Andre Maurois
#14. readers are saying;
"A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport' ..."
" Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer."
"A great piece of work
Keith Guernsey
#15. I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.
Temple Grandin
#16. She'd thought a gun would fit easily into his hand, the way a gun did for a man who hung out in dim bars and smoky hotel rooms. But it didn't fit easily. It didn't fit at all.
Nora Roberts
#17. Mostly I've been in the office, trying to inflict a paper cut on myself serious enough to require medical leave.
Abigail Roux
#18. Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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