Midlander Quotes

#1. As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

Jim Crace

#2. There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.

Amy King

#3. But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.

Dan Simmons

#4. Because just the day before, I had apparently told The Artist of our Generation to color inside the effing lines.

Amber L. Johnson

#5. I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Victoria Woodhull

#7. The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

Christopher S. Wren

#8. Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

David Livingstone

#9. A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Jenna Alatari

#10. Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

E. V. Knox