Major De Coverley Quotes

#1. Major de Coverley is a noble and wonderful person, and everyone admires him.'
'He's a silly old fool who really has no right acting like a silly young fool. Where is he today? Dead?

Joseph Heller

#2. A matriarch who considers powerful sneezes as noise disruptions worthy of eviction.

Alessandra Torre

#3. Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Tom Felton

#4. In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

Malorie Blackman

#5. Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Pope Leo XIII

#6. I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I feel myself going to sleep; I don't just plonk my head on the pillow. It's a sort of winding-down thing.

Evan Davis

#7. The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

Natalie Angier

#8. When I was writing Green Girl,I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and she's very dismissive of the young girl. She writes about the girl as being from this space of bad faith and blankness. I'm more interested in a messy space.

Kate Zambreno

#9. I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

Erica Lorraine Scheidt

#10. Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

Michael P. Naughton

#11. Little Ann," he called
I spun back, and my heart was crushed by the regret on his face. His arms were crossed.
"Don't change too much." With that he looked away, and the manager directed me to the exit.

Wendy Higgins

#12. If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

Ernest Shackleton

#13. It was an accident?" Nick attempts. "An accident?" Chris huffs out. "An accident? You accidentally gave someone a blowjob?" If Nick never hears the word "blowjob" come out of his dad's mouth again, he'll die a happy man.

Lisa Henry

#14. The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#15. You keep life on a short leash."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're scared of what you can't control.

Becca Fitzpatrick