Liz Lochhead Quotes

#1. It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

Tim Tharp

#2. Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?

Robert Rankin

#3. I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

#4. What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.

Bob Hoskins

#5. If aw his hums and haws were hams and haggises, the country wad be weel fed!

Liz Lochhead

#6. No one could say the stories were useless
for as the tongue clacked
five or forty fingers stitched
corn was grated from the husk
pathwork was pieced
or the darning was done ...
(from 'The Storyteller Poems')

Liz Lochhead

#7. That's the thing about being a criminal," Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan.

Ally Carter

#8. Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

Ann Burton

#9. Many of our oldest family trees become a little diseased over time," he said as Bellatrix gazed at him, breathless and imploring. "You must prune yours, must you not, to keep it healthy? Cut away those parts that threaten the health of the rest.

J.K. Rowling

#10. A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

Chanakya

#11. It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

Francis Chan

#12. Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere,

William Shakespeare

#13. The thought that came to mind was a phrase her Nana had often said when she'd found herself in a bad situation. She was up shit creek without a paddle.

C.C. Hunter

#14. I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.

Judi Bari

#15. If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

Annie Lennox

#16. You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

Jane Austen