Hobnobbed With Quotes

#1. My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

Jack Davenport

#2. In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

Primo Levi

#3. When you've lost everything, you can walk through hell and not even feel the heat.

Elaine Hussey

#4. In the end all books are written for your friends.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. I moved, looking for a cigarette. They were in my hand. I lit one. In a moment, I thought, I will say something. I will say something and then I will walk out of this room forever.

James Baldwin

#6. Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.

Lauren Gilley

#7. The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

Tito Vilanova

#9. In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

Sasha Pivovarova

#10. In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#11. Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

Guido Molinari