Miss Murdstone Quotes

#1. A passing thought occurred to me that Miss Murdstone, like the pocket instrument called a life-preserver, was not so much designed for purposes of protection as of assault. But

Charles Dickens

#2. That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian's somebody.
And maybe, just maybe, he was becoming mine.

Melyssa Winchester

#3. You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

Benjamin Franklin

#4. I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

Dennis Miller

#5. What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Charles Taylor

#6. I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.

Jennifer Echols

#7. Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

Robin S. Sharma

#8. And we cried for the years we have lost to hate, bitterness and self-destruction.

Trish Kaye Lleone

#9. People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book ... " and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

Laurie Anderson