Hebridean Quotes

#1. The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.

Alan Garner

#2. Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Ira Glass

#3. I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

Patti Smith

#4. As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

Jeanne Moreau

#5. The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Anthony Eden

#6. You underestimate your value, Savannah." The threat was clear in her voice. "You do as I tell you. Simple as that. Your life is mine now." From Vampire Princess Rising- book two in the Winters Saga

Jami Brumfield

#7. Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

Justin Amash

#8. Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

Rick Riordan

#9. Whether black or white, male or female, active or reserve, gay, bisexual, or straight, we are all Marines. What we share in common goes deeper than any superficial differences.

S.J.D. Peterson

#10. (that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

Thomas Tredgold

#11. The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.

Elizabeth Hein

#12. I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Don Herold